Analog Devices has introduced the industry’s widest bandwidth RF transceiver, enabling companies to accelerate 5G deployments, maintain 2G/3G/4G coverage, and simplify phased array radar design—all on a single RF platform.

The ADRV9009 RF transceiver delivers 200 MHz of bandwidth, twice that of previous generation products, replaces approximately 20 components, cuts power consumption in half, and reduces package size by up to 60 percent.

With its industry-leading performance and reduced size, weight and power (SWaP), the ADRV9009 transceiver meets the stringent antenna density requirements and increased network capacity of new 5G wireless infrastructure equipment, aerospace and defense systems.

The ADRV9009 is the industry’s first RF transceiver that supports all existing mobile communication standards. The new product is tunable across the 75MHz to 6GHz range, enabling it to support 2G/3G/4G/5G mobile services.

This allows mobile equipment manufacturers to address the frequency band and power requirements of all mobile technologies with a single compact RF design. As a result, not only can the system design period be reduced by half compared to the previous period, but the installation and maintenance of multi-band, multi-standard communication equipment can also be simplified.

“This is the first time that designers of cellular equipment have a common RF platform that can deliver the high performance required for existing 2G, 3G and 4G applications, while also addressing emerging wideband applications like 5G,” said Nitin Sharma, general manager of Analog Devices’ transceiver product group.

Featuring wide bandwidth, low power consumption and a small form factor, the ADRV9009 enables the escalating RF channel count requirements of massive 5G MIMO equipment. The new RF transceiver is a single-chip TDD solution that can also be used in the design of portable, lab-grade 5G test and measurement equipment required for field testing of cellular and Internet of Things (IoT) networks.

For aerospace and defense system designs, the ADRV9009 meets the high-performance requirements of both wideband and narrowband applications such as military communications and signal intelligence. This new RF transceiver platform also features fast frequency hopping for enhanced link security and spectrum efficiency.

When designing advanced mobile communications and phased array radar systems, the ADRV9009 simplifies digital beamforming design by handling local oscillator (LO) synchronization functions on-chip, eliminating the need for an external LO.