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:
EnSilica
Category:
RF Transceiver
Ka-Band beamforming and transceiver ASIC platform
The ENS92030 is a versatile multi-channel, Ka-Band frequency, beamforming transceiver IC for phased-array electronically steerabl…
Overview
The ENS92030 is a versatile multi-channel, Ka-Band frequency, beamforming transceiver IC for phased-array electronically steerable antenna systems.
The ENS92030 integrates 4 receive and 4 transmit paths operating at 17.7-21.2GHz and 27.5-30 GHz respectively, with each RF path containing independent 5-bit phase control and fine gain control to achieve accurate beam steering and gain compensation/weighting between antenna elements
The ENS92030 integrates 4 receive and 4 transmit paths operating at 17.7-21.2GHz and 27.5-30 GHz respectively, with each RF path containing independent 5-bit phase control and fine gain control to achieve accurate beam steering and gain compensation/weighting between antenna elements
Key features
- Ka-Band operation
- Rx 17.7 to 21.2 GHz
- Tx 27.5 to 30 GHz
- 4 receive and 4 transmit elements
- 5-bit Ka-Band phase control in each Rx/Tx element
- Ka-Band fine gain control in each Rx/Tx element
- Ka-Band Rx element signal combining
- Ka-Band Tx element signal splitting
- IQ down-conversion/IQ up-conversion for Rx/Tx
- LO generation for Rx/Tx and daisy chaining
- Flexible baseband/IF interface to external IQ ADC/DAC
- SPI control interface; addressable to support parallel devices on a single SPI bus
- Integrated temperature sensor, bias, regulators and comprehensive monitoring and test circuitry
- Supply voltage 1.1V core and 1.8V IO control
- -40°C to 85°C ambient operation
- 3.3 x 3.3mm die for flip-chip bumping
Block Diagram
Ka-Band Transceiver ENS92030 block diagram
Benefits
- High level of integration
- Low-cost bulk CMOS technology
- Low power per channel
- Silicon proven
Applications
- Electronic steerable Ka-Band antenna arrays and
- beam forming applications
- LEO, MEO, GEO satellite communications
- Aerospace, maritime, defence comms/radar
- Test and measurement
- TDD (Time Division Duplex) applications
- FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) applications
- Support for RHCP, LHCP and linear polarization
Specifications
Identity
Part Number
Ka-Band Transceiver ENS92030
Vendor
EnSilica
Type
Silicon IP
Files
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Provider
HQ:
UK
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