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Qorvo 1800MHz Small Cell RF Card Hardware User’s Guide
Hardware User’s Guide
3 Introduction
Qorvo 2x2 Small Cell RF Front-end 1.8GHz Card
mates with the Xilinx Zynq Ult RFSoC
ZCU111 Evaluation Board, enabling direct RF-sampling radio prototype within the LTE 1800MHz frequency
band.
The ZCU111 has an XCZU28DR Zynq RFSoC device with eight 12-
bit ADC’s that can operate up to 4GHZ
and eight 14-bit DAC
’s that can operate up to 6.5GHz. The Qorvo uses 4 ADC channels and 2 DAC channels
in order to support a 2x2 configuration with observation paths for digital pre-distortion (DPD).
The Qorvo card (part #
) may be purchased stand alone, or bundled in the
This document describes the features and use of the Qorvo RF card. For a description of the ZCU111, see
the User Guide, UG1271 [1].
Figure 1
– The Qorvo RF Card plugged into a Xilinx ZCU111 development board
