The TRXBF02 from Sivers Semiconductors is a 5G-NR RFIC that operates from 24.0 to 29.5 GHz. It is 3GPP-compliant solution that enables full transceiver design with a uniquely high level of integration, supporting tiling of several RFICs together in bigger arrays for longer reach and greater performance. This RFIC supports different markets and frequency bands using the same hardware and is a perfect choice for licensed 5G spectrum. It consists of a 16+16 channel beamforming transceiver integrating direct conversion I/Q capability and enables the zero-IF/low-IF baseband interface to be easily interfaced with any 5G mmWave modem. This RFIC supports 256-QAM modulation and beyond and has integrated beam look for instant beam steering/forming.
The TRXBF02 requires less discrete components, which means less cost and higher quality, making them some of the important considerations when designing a customer premise equipment (CPE). It has superior link budget, flexible channelization, and excellent error vector magnitude (EVM) performance. On the Tx side, it delivers an output power of +25 dBm and a datarate of 5 Gbps while on the Rx side, it has a noise figure of 7 dB. This radio chip is available in a wafer-level ball grid array (BGA) package and is ideal for backhaul, 5G mmWave, FWA, and V2X applications.
