A preview of a software-defined radio
Though it didn’t have an IMS booth, Avnet was showing its PicoZed software-defined radio (Z7035/AD9361) in a meeting room. The PicoZed boards are system-on-module (SOM) devices based on the Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC. Radio facilities in this particular board come via an Analog Devices AD9361-BBCZ Integrated RF Agile Transceiver, an RF 2 ×2 transceiver with integrated 12-bit DACs and ADCs covering 70 MHz to 6.0 GHz. It has a tunable channel bandwidth of less than 200 kHz to 56 MHz and supports MIMO radio with less than 1 sample sync on both ADC and DAC. Avnet says the typical applications for the board are likely to include portable test equipment, CT medical imaging, and IoT gateways.
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