Field-Programmable Gate Array

The PolarFire field-programmable gate array (FPGA) from Microsemi Corp. is now interoperable with Analog Devices Inc.’s AD9371 wideband integrated radio frequency transceiver via a JESD204B interface.

Customers considering the AD9371, which offers dual channel transmitters and receivers, integrated synthesizers and digital signal processing functions, can utilize Microsemi’s PolarFire FPGAs to interface and interoperate with JESD204B while utilizing lower power implementation than competing devices. Microsemi’s PolarFire FPGA features a 12.7-Gbps transceiver fully optimized to be area efficient and low power, resulting in total power of
<90 mW at 10 Gbps. Its intellectual property cores, which implement the transmitter and receiver interfaces of the JESD204B standard, are easy to integrate with JESD204B-based data converters. 

While PolarFire FPGAs are ideal for multiple markets, the interoperability with Analog Devices’ AD9371 RF transceiver makes the devices particularly suitable for the wireless communications, defense and industrial markets including high-bandwidth applications such as remote radio head and active antennae, test and measurement equipment, software defined radios, massive multiple-antenna systems and small cells.