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AD-FMCOMMS4-EBZ User Guide

The AD-FMComms4-EBZ is an FMC board for the AD9364, a highly integrated RF Agile Transceiver™. While the complete chip level design package can be found on the the ADI web site. Information on the card, and how to use it, the design package that surrounds it, and the software which can make it work, can be found here.

The purpose of the AD-FMComms4-EBZ is to provide an RF platform to software developers, system architects, etc, who want a single platform which operates over a much wider tuning range (70 MHz – 6 GHz).

The AD-FMComms4-EBZ board is very similar to the AD-FMComms2-EBZ and AD-FMComms3-EBZ boards with only one exception, rather than the AD9361 (which is 2 Rx, 2 Tx), it uses the AD9364, a lower cost 1 Rx, 1 Tx device. The AD-FMComms4-EBZ includes both types of external baluns, one targeted for wider tuning range applications (Minicircuits TCM1-63AX+), and ones which provide optimized performance for 2.4 GHz.

Since much of the FMCOMMS2/3/4 share a common device/infrastructure, much of the documentation is the same.

  1. FMCOMMS4 Hardware: This provides a brief description of the AD-FMCOMMS4-EBZ board by itself, and is a good reference for those who want to understand a little more about the board. If you just want to use the board, you can skip this section, and come back to it when you want to incorporate the AD9361 into your product.
    1. Hardware (including schematics)
  2. Use the AD-FMCOMMS4-EBZ Board to better understand the AD9364
    1. Push custom data into/out of the AD-FMCOMMS2-EBZ
  3. Design with the AD9364
    1. Simulation
    2. Hardware in the Loop / How to design your own custom BaseBand
      1. MATLAB/Simulink Examples
      2. FM Radio/Tuner (listen to FM signals on the HDMI monitor)
    3. Design a custom AD9361 based platform
      1. HDL Reference Design which you must use in your FPGA.

Warning

All the products described on this page include ESD (electrostatic discharge) sensitive devices. Electrostatic charges as high as 4000V readily accumulate on the human body or test equipment and can discharge without detection.

Although the boards feature ESD protection circuitry, permanent damage may occur on devices subjected to high-energy electrostatic discharges. Therefore, proper ESD precautions are recommended to avoid performance degradation or loss of functionality. This includes removing static charge on external equipment, cables, or antennas before connecting to the device.

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