Integrated Transceivers, Transmitters and Receivers

Tutorials & Webcasts

Wireless Communication of Sensor Data in Industrial Applications
This webcast will discusses practical real world factors that impact achieving a robust wireless communications link in industrial applications. Low power operation, processing and precision ADC performance can be important requirements for wireless sensors and these areas is also discussed in this webcast.

RF Transceivers Technical Articles

The Smart Grid Communications Evolution: Closing the Loop for the Intelligent Electric Grid (Microwave Journal, Dec. 2010)

ISM Band Transceivers: Enabling the Wireless Link for a Diverse Range of Applications Microwave Product Digest, June 2010

Wireless Technologies for Smart Meters: Focus on Water Metering (pdf, 493 KB)

Synchronizing NxN MIMO Basestations to an External Timing Reference
Understand how a high-performance clock generator, in conjunction with one or more integrated transceivers, simplifies overall design and reduces complexity and cost, while resulting in excellent system receive/transmit performance. (RF DesignLine, 5/10/2010)

Smart Metering Technology Promotes Energy Efficiency for a Greener World
The metering of electric power coming into the home is going electronic, replacing the long-established electromechanical power-line meter (from the 1890s) with all-electronic smart meters. (RF DesignLine, July 27, 2009)

RF Meets Power Lines: Designing Intelligent Smart Grid Systems that Promote Energy Efficiency RF DesignLine, March 2010 (Electronic Design, July 23, 2009)

Direct Conversion Receiver Designs Enable Multi-standard/Multi-band Operation
Modern direct conversion provides a compelling solution for field programmable radio designs and offers a cost benefit and potential performance advantage over traditional receiver solutions. (RF Designline, 2/16/2009)

Design, Simulate, and Document Proprietary Wireless Systems
The broad acceptance of standards developed for short range wireless connectivity has been one of the notable features of the semiconductor market in the past few years. The available wireless standards are not always the best fit for the application’s requirements, however. (Analog Dialogue, Volume 42, Number 4 2008)

Understand Receiver Dynamic Range and AGC Tradeoffs in WiMAX Femtocells and Picocells By Manish Manglani, Tony Montalvo, and Chris Cloninger, Analog Devices, Inc. (Planet Analog, 8/2008)
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Part II

Wireless Short Range Devices and Narrowband Communications
The term “Short Range Device” (SRD) covers radio transmitters which provide either unidirectional or bi-directional communication and which have a low capability of causing interference to other radio equipment. (Microwave Product Digest, July, 2007)

Understand Wireless Short-Range Devices for Global License-Free Systems
Short-range devices (SRD) are radio transmitters that communicate unidirectionally or bidirectionally with little capability of interfering with other radio equipment. They provide many different services, including home automation, wireless alarms, and remote keyless entry. (RF DesignLine, March 07, 2007)

The Use of Short Range Wireless in a Multi-Metering System (pdf, 220 KB)
One of the more evident trends at the recent Metering Europe 2006 event in Copenhagen was that both meter manufacturers and utility companies are placing an increased emphasis on the use of communication networks to create added value for their systems and also to leverage from infrastructure investment already in place. (Metering International, December, 2006)

Brochures & Bulletins

RF/IF Selection Guide

RF IC Solutions Bulletin

Innovative Energy ICs Solutions Bulletin

Industrial Solutions Bulletin

White Paper

Smart Partitioning in LTE and WiMAX Radios

Data Sheets

RF Transceivers Data Sheets

Parametric Search

ISM and Licensed Band Transceivers

ISM Transmitters and Receivers

Wideband Transceivers

Tools

ADIsimSRD™ Design Studio

ADIsimRF™
Video: ADIsimRF™

ADIsimPLL™
Video: ADIsimPLL™

Device Drivers

ADF7242 Network MAC802154 Linux Driver

Utilities & Conversions

VRMS / dBm / dBu / dBV Calculator
A utility to convert between standard units of power measurement and signal strength.

RF Impedance Matching Tool
This calculator matches a known complex load to a desired impedance at a given frequency. Computes component values and displays a sample circuit of the matching network.

Circuits from the Lab

CN-0164 (pdf, 172 KB)
Low Power, Long Range, ISM Wireless Measuring Node

CN-0174 (pdf, 202 KB)
Low Noise, 12 GHz, Microwave Fractional-N Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) Using an Active Loop Filter and RF Prescaler

RF Transceivers Application Notes

AN-1082: Automatic IEEE 802.15.4 Operating Modes (pdf, 202 kB)

AN-1082: RCCM IEEEX Code (zip, 1KB)

AN-859: RF Port Impedance Data, Matching, and External Component Selection for the ADF7020-1, ADF7021, and ADF7021-N (pdf, 333 KB)

AN-0987: Designing a Wireless Transceiver System to Meet the Wireless M-Bus Standard (pdf, 140 KB)

AN-915: CDR Operation for ADF7020, ADF7020-1, ADF7021, and ADF7025 (pdf, 439 kB)

AN-917: Using an LC Harmonic Filter at 868 MHz and 915 MHz with the EVAL-ADF7020 and EVAL-ADF7025 Evaluation Boards (pdf, 122 kB)

AN-772: A Design and Manufacturing Guide for the Lead Frame Chip Scale Package (LFCSP) (pdf, 439 KB)

AN-860: Using an External VCO with the ADF7010 (pdf, 160 KB)

AN-852: Using the Test DAC on the ADF702x to Implement Functions Such as Analog FM DEMOD, SNR Measurement, FEC Decoding, and PSK/4FSK Demodulation (pdf, 259 kB)

AN-771: ADSP-BF533 EZ-KIT Lite and ADF70xx Interface (pdf, 201 kB)

AN-764: ADF7020 RF Port Impedance Values for Matching Purposes