Transceivers integrate four ADCs and four DACs

With, according to TI, the industry’s widest frequency range, highest instantaneous bandwidth and a 75% smaller design footprint than a discrete solution, the quad-channel AFE7444 and dual-channel AFE742 transceivers help engineers more easily achieve multiantenna, direct RF sampling for radar, software defined radio and wireless 5G applications.

While sampling up to 9 gigasamples per second (GSPS) per DAC and up to 3 GSPS per ADC, the AFE7444 receives and transmits up to 800 MHz of information from each of the four antennae, and the AFE7422 receives and transmits 1.2 GHz from each of the two antennae.