Texas Instruments Unveils Fully-Integrated, Lowest Power Modem Transceiver

Texas Instruments (News - Alert) Incorporated recently released a fully-integrated, on-off keying modem transceiver, the SN65HVD62.

Compliant with the Antenna Interface Standards Group v2.0 specification, the SN65HVD62 reduces power consumption by up to 50 percent compared to the competition. This allows designers to reduce overall power consumption and simplify cooling mechanisms in their systems.

The SN65HVD62 integrates all components that are needed to transmit and receive signals, into a 3-mm by 3-mm package reducing board space compared to discrete solutions.

Available in industry-standard, 16-pin QFN package, the transceiver modulates and demodulates signals between the logic and a frequency suitable for long coaxial media like AISG coaxial links between base station and tower- mounted equipment, tower-mounted amplifiers, remote electrical tilt units and control links on microwave towers.

Officials said that the transceiver supports adjustable output power levels, which ranges from 0 dBm (News - Alert) to 6 dBm delivered to the 50-ohm coax cable. This further allows the designer to enhance the signal to the application for greater flexibility compared to the competition.

The SN65HVD62 boasts lower emissions in the RF band as compared to competitive solutions. This helps applications achieve better signal-to-noise ratio in cellular data without the need for external filtering. Additionally, it also offers a direction output, for easy control of half-duplex, RS-485 transceivers, such as the SN65HVD72.

In related TMC (News - Alert) news, Texas Instruments Incorporated recently introduced its newest DaVinci video processor, the DM369, which features best-in-class low-light technology for the megapixel IP camera market.