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Analog Devices Press Release - August 10, 2010
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Analog Devices Collaborates with Altera to Streamline Wireless Infrastructure System Development
- ADI launches best-in-class multi-carrier development platform to enable high-performance,
cost-effective base station design.

NORWOOD,
Mass.--( BUSINESS WIRE)--
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) introduced a high-performance
development platform for wireless infrastructure equipment designers who need to quickly evaluate systems using
DPD (digital pre-distortion) techniques in multi-carrier cellular base stations. ADI’s
MS-DPD (mixed-signal, digital pre-distortion) development platform seamlessly integrates a complete
high-performance RF and mixed-signal transmit chain from ADI with any FPGA (field-programmable gate array)
development kit with an HSMC (high-speed mezzanine card) connector from industry leading programmable-logic vendor Altera Corporation.
“Analog Devices’ RF and mixed-signal portfolio gives our customers access to a complete radio
architecture, which allows them to lower engineering overhead and time-to-market,” said Martin Cotter, segment
director,
Communications Infrastructure, Analog Devices. “By collaborating with Altera, ADI is now able to offer
customers the complete circuitry and components needed to implement a base station radio. The
MS-DPD platform offers the highest performance possible in the transmit and observation-path signal chains,
allowing our customers to focus on differentiation in their DPD algorithm implementations.”
The complete
multi-carrier development platform has best-in-class dynamic performance, which reduces the time spent on
component selection, interoperability issues and board layout while freeing design resources to optimize the DPD
algorithms required by multi-carrier GSM and multi-standard SDR (software-defined radio) applications. FPGAs
enable designers to quickly re-program DPD algorithms during product development to correct for non-linearities in
the radio’s transmit paths while improving the power efficiency of the entire radio. FPGAs also provide the
flexibility to optimize the solution that competing fixed-function ASICs (application-specific integrated
circuits) cannot.
“This collaboration between ADI and Altera provides customers with a complete
system-level hardware development platform for base station radio designs that complements our portfolio of RF
solutions, which includes multi-mode CFR and DPD IP," said Arun Iyengar, senior director of Altera's
communications business unit. "The MS-DPD board has native support for Altera’s
HSMC connector and can seamlessly interface with the
FPGA development kits from Altera and our partners. The in-field-programmability feature of Altera FPGAs
significantly lowers the risk of introducing new technologies such as DPD, while also offering scalability to
further enhance flexibility and provide a low-risk cost-reduction path for high-volume production with our
HardCopy ASICs.”
ADI’s Development Platform Components ADI’s
MS-DPD development board includes more than 12 Analog Devices’ RF and mixed-signal components, including the
recently announced
AD9122 1.2-GSPS DAC (digital-to-analog converter) and
ADL5375 quadrature modulator, in addition to amplifiers, mixers, clock ICs, power management ICs, and PLL
(phase-locked-loop) circuits. The observation path includes the
AD9230 12-bit, 250-MSPS ADC (analog-to-digital converter) to maximize the bandwidth available for DPD.


Availability and Pricing
MS-DPD development board are available today to qualified customers from ADI for $3,995 each. For more
information and to contact Altera
click here. For more information and to contact ADI
click here.
About Analog Devices, Inc.
Innovation, performance, and excellence are the cultural pillars on which Analog Devices has built one of
the longest-standing, highest-growth companies within the technology sector. Acknowledged industry-wide as the
world leader in data-conversion and signal-conditioning technologies, Analog Devices serves over 60,000 customers,
representing virtually all types of electronic equipment. Celebrating over 40 years as a leading global
manufacturer of high-performance integrated circuits for analog- and digital-signal processing applications,
Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, with design and manufacturing facilities throughout the
world. Analog Devices' common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “ADI” and is
included in the S&P 500 Index.
http://www.analog.com
Follow ADI on Twitter at
http://www.twitter.com/ADI_News.
Contact
Analog Devices, Inc. Linda Kincaid
781-937-1472
Linda.Kincaid@analog.com
Posted 8/11/2010
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