High-Speed Serial fully digital interface between WLAN RF and BB chips
High-Speed Serial fully digital interface between WLAN RF and BB chips
Vendor:
Akronic, P.C.
Category:
RF Transceiver
Ka-Band (24 - 33GHz) Zero-IF Transceiver
The ALTUS28TR is a integrated, mmWave, agile transceiver offering high performance and configurability for target applications in…
Overview
The ALTUS28TR is a highly integrated, mmWave, agile transceiver offering high performance and configurability for target applications in an advanced SiGe BiCMOS process technology. This silicon intellectual property (SIP) delivers a versatile combination of high performance and low power consumption.
The ALTUS28TR is a direct conversion transceiver SIP, operating at frequencies around 28GHz. The receiver front-end provides high sensitivity, linearity and wide gain control range distributed throughout the RF chain, providing much room for calibration and optimization. The transmitter front-end exhibits direct upconverter, variable gain driving amplifier and wide gain control range. An integrated power detector is also implemented for external monitoring and control of transmitted power.
Both transmitter and receiver involve LO leakage compensation circuitry that can minimize LO leakage and DC offsets, respectively.
The LO signal at the input is expected to cover the range [8−11]GHz and then multiplied internally to the carrier frequency.
The baseband part of the transceiver consists of two (I/Q channel) fully differential low pass filters with adjustable cut-off and flexible calibration scheme.
The transceiver size is 2.7x2.7mm2 and has been packaged in a 34-ball chip scale package (CSP).
Key features
- Direct up/down conversion
- TX BB input freq. range: DC to 750MHz
- TX/RX mmW freq. range: 24GHz to 33GHz
- LO frequency range: 8GHz to 11GHz
- Typical TX gain: 14dB
- TX gain control range: 50dB
- Typical RX gain: 60dB − 80dB, depending on filter BW
- RX gain control range: 90dB
- TX saturation power: 13dBm
- RX noise figure: 5.5dB
- Single-ended 50Ω input/output impedance
- 4-wire SPI control
- DC power: 540mW in RX, 500mW in TX mode
- Package: 2.7x2.7mm2, CSP package
Block Diagram
ALTUS28TR block diagram
Applications
- TDD/FDD communication systems
- 5G communication systems
- Satellite communications
- Point-to-point/multipoint Ka-band communications
- RADAR systems
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Specifications
Identity
Part Number
ALTUS28TR
Vendor
Akronic, P.C.
Provider
Akronic, P.C.
HQ:
Greece
Specialized in RF and mmWave IC design, Akronic is a fabless semiconductor company providing cutting-edge silicon solutions and design services for wireless transceivers, RADAR sensors and antenna beamforming systems.
In tight collaboration with customer internal teams, Akronic delivers highly integrated microelectronics extending from prototyping to production turnkey solutions, enabling working silicon realities. Customers span from tier-1 players to stealth-mode start-ups across the telecom, automotive, aerospace and IoT market sectors.
Akronic continuously keeps abreast of the latest market and technology trends and delivers silicon breakthroughs for Active Electronic Steerable Antennas (AESA) for 5G, SATCOM and RADAR. By combining optimal system architecture and calibration methodologies, with innovative mmWave circuit and packaging design techniques, Akronic offers unique blending of performance and overall recurring cost.
Akronic's extensive silicon portfolio, among others, includes the agile ALTUS28TR Ka-band transceiver, its companion NEXUS9X, X-band, supreme performance fractional-N PLL (with FMCW RADAR support), and a cutting-edge high-output power Ka-band beamformer.
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