Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) doesn’t just make chips, it also makes software-defined digital up and down converter (DUC/DDC), and today the firm has announced its most powerful to date.
Dubbed the GC6016, TI says its converter is perfect for narrow and wideband 2G, 3G and 4G wireless base stations and digital repeaters, software defined radios (SDRs), MIMO transceivers and wideband digitizers.
According to TI tThe GC6016 supports one to 48 DUC/DDC channels across four transmit and eight receive streams with up to 155 million samples per second (MS/s) composite bandwidth.
It also offers fractional re-samplers, crest factor reduction, 48-bit numerically controlled oscillators (NCO) and automatic gain control (AGC) supporting up to four transmit and eight receive antennas simultaneously with multi-band and multi-mode configurations.
The TI is available at a price point of less than $65 each in 1,000-unit quantities, but The GC6016 evaluation module (EVM) costs a rather more hefty $3,499. Having said that, the GC6016EVM mates directly to more than 75 high speed data converter evaluation modules, including all members of the ADS6xxx, ADS54xx, ADS4xxx, DAC3xxx and DAC56xx families.
