The industry’s first single-chip Adaptable Radio platform
From 5G to aerospace, cutting-edge applications require increased bandwidth and fast computing that uses less power.
Introducing the RFSoC product family, the industry's first and only single-chip adaptable radio platform on the market. The RFSoC family includes state-of-the-art solutions that eliminate the need for discrete converters, placing everything you need on a single chip. The elimination of discrete implementation means increased power reduction and a smaller physical footprint. With simple interfacing and increased flexibility through direct RF sampling, system architects and RF designers can implement future-proof solutions within a rapidly evolving landscape. The RFSoC portfolio features highly optimized synchronization for phased array applications. The elimination of the JESD204B interface results in lower latency between transmit and receive times.
The Zynq® RFSoC DFE delivers 2X performance/watt versus Zynq UltraScale+™ RFSoC Gen 3 by combining hardened digital front-end IP cores with adaptive logic. This new class of radio platforms balances the flexibility of an FPGA, cost economies of an ASIC, and the RF-Analog integration only found in Zynq RFSoCs.
There are still new advancements to the RFSoC product family just on the horizon. The Zynq RFSoC DFE (Digital Front-End) is a 5G NR radio solution that will balance the flexibility and cost of tomorrow’s evolving 5G landscape.
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Lower Power Consumption
- Adaptive RFSoC platform integrates more hardened IP than soft logic, enabling a flexible solution that is high performance, power-efficient, and cost-effectiveness
- The instantaneous BW supported is 400 MHz and 1600 MHz in FR1 and FR2, respectively, to solve diverse multiband requirements
- Up to 8T8R with integrated feedback ADCs for single-chip FDD radio solution
- Hardened DPD IP is based on AMD production proven soft-core and enhanced to support advanced wideband GaN Power Amplifiers to improve power efficiency
The RFSoC product family’s breakthrough integration translates to lower power, a smaller footprint, and ease and flexibility of programming. By integrating everything onto one chip, the RFSoC family provides key benefits for applications that require fast computing at a lower cost.
Lower Power Consumption
Power-hungry FPGA-to-Analog interfaces like JESD204 increase the energy and time it takes to move data from converters to programmable logic. The RFSoC portfolio eliminates JESD204 and the need for discrete converters, resulting in a power reduction of up to 50% (compared to separate implementations).
Smaller Physical Footprint
Most RFSoC family products include an RF data converter subsystem, which contains multiple ADCs and DACs. Integrating the converters within the chip eliminates the need for discrete RF converters, providing a previously unattainable footprint for high-end projects.
Heterogeneous Computation
The RFSoC family features a quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A53 with a dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F processing system combined with Xilinx's UltraScale™ architecture programmable logic, which engineers can use to implement complete software-defined radio solutions.
Versatile Programmability
The RFSoC family features analog/digital programmability across the RF signal chain. This provides total access to analog, digital, and embedded design, simplifying calibration and synchronization along the signal chain.
The introduction of 5G, new broadband demands, and the need for faster and more cost-effective programming require future-proof solutions. The RFSoC family’s embedded platform allows designers to scale projects from low to high-end and beyond.
Beamforming in mmWave communications
Adaptive beamforming requires precision tracking. The RFSoC family is the ideal choice for advancing 5G architectures. By integrating ADCs and DACs, the RFSoC family delivers the highest performance-per-watt solution for interfacing to 5G antennas.
Massive MIMO
The demands of 5G broadband offer challenges for Massive MIMO applications that utilize discrete converters. The RFSoC family’s fully integrated design eliminates the need for discrete converters, giving wireless infrastructure manufacturers a previously unattainable footprint with increased power reduction.
Satellite Communications
Leveraging the RFSoC family’s highly integrated RF-DAC/ADC and programmable logic allows designers to build more complex and high bandwidth connectivity modems. The chip’s Arm-based processing system is the perfect solution for satellite ground stations.
Software-Defined Radio
The RFSoC platform utilizes an embedded software framework ideal for prototyping radio system designs. Designers can perform processing digitally, all on the same device, resulting in higher precision for deterministic operation.
LiDAR
New, emerging LiDAR technologies from ADAS to advanced 3D imaging applications require technology that meets future design needs. The RFSoC family’s integrated data converters combined with the flexibility of adaptable hardware provides designers the ability to scale with infinite potential.
Phased Array Radar
The RFSoC family includes single-chip TRX solutions ideal for scalable, multi-function, phased array radar. The solution enables low latency transmit-and-receive for lightning-fast response time in scenarios where early warnings are imperative.
Multi-Channel RF Instrumentation
Allowing for 8x8 to 16x16 channels on a single device provides unprecedented scalability for multi-channel RF instrumentation.
The RFSoC product family gives industries the power and flexibility to handle a wide range of applications in a rapidly growing market. Our portfolio of solutions helps designers stay ahead of the technology, bringing solutions to market faster than ever before.
5G and Wireless
The RFSoC product family gives wireless infrastructure manufacturers unparalleled footprint and power reduction, which is necessary for today’s Massive MIMO deployment. The platform can achieve up to 6GHz of direct RF bandwidth for full sub-6GHz 5G New Radio (5G NR) support on a single device.
Test and Measurement
With direct RF-sampling, highly flexible, reconfigurable logic, and software programmability, the RFSoC product family allows designers to build high-speed multi-function instrumentation for signal generation.
Aerospace and Defense
Leveraging highly integrated RF-DAC/ADC and programmable logic, the RFSoC’s Arm®-based processing system allows designers to build complex modems with high bandwidth connectivity to communicate from ground to air with exceptional reliability.
Automotive (RADAR)
When using the RFSoC product family, designers get more than a flexible RF solution; it's like designing with a complete radar on a chip. Integrated ADC/DAC and programmable logic can be used to develop next generation 4D imaging radar solutions for self-driving vehicles.
Medical (Imaging)
The RFSoC product family’s integrated data converters and adaptable hardware provides flexibility for advanced 3D medical imaging applications.
Frequency Planning in mmWave Applications with Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoCs
With up to 16 channels of integrated RF-ADCs and RF-DACs in Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC devices, interfacing to mmWave RF up/down conversion requires careful frequency planning to ensure the best wideband performance. This webinar will present frequency planning guidelines and design considerations for mmWave transmit and receive chains. Our use case is applicable to a mmWave superheterodyne radio using Avnet’s mmWave Radio kit with Xilinx’s ZCU208, which features the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3. You will learn a multi-step process to identify a suitable range of I/F frequencies based on target RF frequencies and maximum signal bandwidth. Performance refinements are then applied by considering harmonic products and image terms from both the RF-DACs and RF-ADCs and the RF signal chain.
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RFSoC: Interconnecting the RF World with a Single Chip Radio Platform
The modern world relies upon RF systems, with demands for these RF systems to be smaller, lower powered and higher performing, challenges which are often mutually exclusive. The Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC provides system developers with high performance capabilities thanks to its unique heterogeneous architecture and also addresses power and size challenges with RF-ADC and RF-DAC in the same die. Join this webinar to learn about RFSoC performance, target applications, how to retire project risk early on in the development cycle, and get an overview of available production solutions like system on modules.
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Multi-Tile Synchronization Characterization and Performance on the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3
Synchronizing data converters is critical for phased array and massive-MIMO applications, and effects like architecture, alignment, temperature, voltage and process can impact performance. In this webinar, we will review the Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC data converter structure and recent multi-tile synchronization characterization and performance. A design methodology using HDL Coder ™ from MathWorks will be shown for custom implementations of multi-tile synchronization on the Xilinx ZCU208 evaluation kit.
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Beamforming fundamentals
An intro to beamforming theory for phased array systems and implementation in Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC.
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