The 16-bit, 12GSPS AD9162 converter features best-in-class 2.5GHz bandwidth.

Analog Devices (Korea Representative Director Jaehoon Yang) announced a DAC that enables viewers currently watching TV at home to experience the future of television.

With the newly released DAC, viewers can enjoy Ultra High Definition (UHD) and 4K television on more channels with high-quality streaming and fast download speeds that were previously unavailable.

This product is highly innovative for the broadband and wireless services industry and can satisfy the growing demand from consumers for higher-quality always-on data and video streaming without the need for costly, large-scale architectural or converter design changes, by providing industry-leading bandwidth and dynamic range.

The 16-bit, 12GSPS AD9162 converter has a best-in-class 2.5GHz bandwidth, which exceeds the 1.794GHz bandwidth—an optional future requirement of the cable industry's DOCSIS 3.1 standard—by nearly 40%. With wider bandwidth, cable operators can plan upgrades and capacity expansions for next-generation networks without changing converter designs, thereby shortening product development time and saving engineering resources.

In addition, designers can synthesize signals across a wide frequency spectrum from direct-to-RF up to 6 GHz using the AD9162 converter's industry-leading dynamic range (-82 dBc SFDR @ -167 dBm/Hz NSD). In wireless applications, using the AD9162 converter eliminates the need for an IF-to-RF up-conversion step and removes the generation of local oscillator (LO) signals, thereby reducing the number of components, size, and power consumption of base stations. The AD9162 supports all wireless infrastructure protocols (WCDMA, LTE, LTE-A, P2P), enabling modern multi-band and multi-standard radio designs.

The AD9162 converter supports lower interface data rates through 2x interpolators (FIR85), enabling converter clocking configurations that can reduce overall system power consumption and relax filtering requirements. The RF DAC can output RF carriers up to 7.5 GHz in the second and third Nyquist domains while maintaining excellent dynamic range in mix-mode operation.