ADI has brought out the first IC  in its RadioVerse series. The ADRV9040 offers eight transmit and receive channels of 400MHz bandwidth and integrates advanced DSP functions, including carrier digital up-converters (CDUC), carrier digital down-converters (CDDC), crest factor reduction (CFR) and digital pre-distortion (DPD). These capabilities can eliminate the need for an FPGA, thereby reducing ...

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