The introduction of 5G, new broadband demands, and the need for faster and more cost-effective programming require future-proof solutions. The RFSoC family’s embedded platform allows designers to scale projects from low to high-end and beyond.

Beamforming in mmWave communications

Adaptive beamforming requires precision tracking. The RFSoC family is the ideal choice for advancing 5G architectures. By integrating ADCs and DACs, the RFSoC family delivers the highest performance-per-watt solution for interfacing to 5G antennas.

Massive MIMO

The demands of 5G broadband offer challenges for Massive MIMO applications that utilize discrete converters. The RFSoC family’s fully integrated design eliminates the need for discrete converters, giving wireless infrastructure manufacturers a previously unattainable footprint with increased power reduction.

Satellite Communications

Leveraging the RFSoC family’s highly integrated RF-DAC/ADC and programmable logic allows designers to build more complex and high bandwidth connectivity modems. The chip’s Arm-based processing system is the perfect solution for satellite ground stations.

The RFSoC product family gives industries the power and flexibility to handle a wide range of applications in a rapidly growing market. Our portfolio of solutions helps designers stay ahead of the technology, bringing solutions to market faster than ever before.

5G and Wireless

The RFSoC product family gives wireless infrastructure manufacturers unparalleled footprint and power reduction, which is necessary for today’s Massive MIMO deployment. The platform can achieve up to 6GHz of direct RF bandwidth for full sub-6GHz 5G New Radio (5G NR) support on a single device.

Frequency Planning in mmWave Applications with Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoCs

With up to 16 channels of integrated RF-ADCs and RF-DACs in Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC devices, interfacing to mmWave RF up/down conversion requires careful frequency planning to ensure the best wideband performance. This webinar will present frequency planning guidelines and design considerations for mmWave transmit and receive chains. Our use case is applicable to a mmWave superheterodyne radio using Avnet’s mmWave Radio kit with Xilinx’s ZCU208, which features the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3. You will learn a multi-step process to identify a suitable range of I/F frequencies based on target RF frequencies and maximum signal bandwidth. Performance refinements are then applied by considering harmonic products and image terms from both the RF-DACs and RF-ADCs and the RF signal chain.

RFSoC: Interconnecting the RF World with a Single Chip Radio Platform

The modern world relies upon RF systems, with demands for these RF systems to be smaller, lower powered and higher performing, challenges which are often mutually exclusive. The Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC provides system developers with high performance capabilities thanks to its unique heterogeneous architecture and also addresses power and size challenges with RF-ADC and RF-DAC in the same die. Join this webinar to learn about RFSoC performance, target applications, how to retire project risk early on in the development cycle, and get an overview of available production solutions like system on modules.

Multi-Tile Synchronization Characterization and Performance on the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3

Synchronizing data converters is critical for phased array and massive-MIMO applications, and effects like architecture, alignment, temperature, voltage and process can impact performance. In this webinar, we will review the Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC data converter structure and recent multi-tile synchronization characterization and performance. A design methodology using HDL Coder ™ from MathWorks will be shown for custom implementations of multi-tile synchronization on the Xilinx ZCU208 evaluation kit.