Maxim Integrated Products has announced it latest small cell RF transceiver which supports all 3G and 4G LTE frequency bands.

The company believes small cell basestations will play a strategic part in the rollout of 4G services both outdoors as well as in-building.

This will see the deployment of so-called heterogeneous networks (HetNets).

"With LTE deployments, unlike 3G, operators are taking a deliberate stance to use macro basestations complemented by indoor and outdoor small cell base stations to address coverage and capacity planning challenges in the networks." said Vickram Vathulya, managing director of RF Solutions at Maxim Integrated.

The company believes that small cell designers will need RF transceivers which support all the LTE and 3G frequency bands.

The receiver supports LTE FDD-LTE and TD-LTE modes as well as 3G WCDMA mode. Channel bandwidths are programmable from 1.4MHz to 20MHz.

Maxim will also offer system-level reference designs for indoor and outdoor basestation applications.

The MAX2580 transceiver integrates a 2x2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) RF front-end, including IF amplifiers, fractional-N frequency synthesisers, data converters and channel selection filters.

It outputs a data stream to the baseband processors over a JESD207 data interface.

The power amplifier (PA) pre-driver delivers 0dBm output power level.

The MAX2580 is sampling to qualified customers and will be available in the second half of 2013. 

The MAX2580 will be on display at Maxim’s stand at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain on February 25-28.

By: DocMemory
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