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The AMC-RF2x2 is a high performance RF card in an Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) form factor. The standard hardware provides 2 RF ports supporting both FDD and TDD modes across all the LTE and LTE advanced bands. 1.4MHz through to 40MHz bandwidths are supported and on-board frequency synthesizers can be programmed to 1Hz resolution.

The RF power is programmable and can be instrumented precisely using the on-board RF power meters. This means that the AMC-RF2x2 is ideal for LTE and LTE Advanced test equipment, demonstrators, trial systems and other high performance applications.

Digital down converter (DDC) and digital up converter (DUC) operations are conducted by integrated firmware within the on-board Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA.

Synchronisation is via front panel SMB connector, backplane or recovered from the CPRI interface.

– 2 x 2 MIMO on a single card.
– Tunable frequency range 699 MHz – 3839 MHz to support all LTE bands
– FDD and TDD
– Fully integrated with firmware and software
– Transmit power programmable up to +10dBm
– Xilinx Virtex-6 LX75T FPGA performing DDC and DUC operations at up to 40MHz bandwidths
– Single width, full-size AMC card
– Two SFP sockets to support a CPRI or OBSAI interface

The MIC-5212 is a low power, dual-port 10 GbE AMC, with SFP+ pluggable modules for multi-mode and single-mode fiber media and is based on the Intel® 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller. The AMC provides a high performance PCIe x8 interface at 5 Gb/s per lane at an outstanding low power dissipation of less than 10W. Support for Intel’s offloading and platform enhancement features yields maximum network throughput while preserving valuable CPU cycles for application processing. The MIC-5212 features an Intel®82599 which provides Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c) including Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and PCI-SIG compliant Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), helping to reduce I/O bottlenecks, boost throughput, and reduce latency. Where virtualization is required, VMDq improves performance by offloading the data-sorting burden from the virtual machine manager (VMM) to the network controller. The MIC-5212’s specialized features include Layer 2 & 3 security with IPSec & LinkSec; VLAN tagging, stripping and packet filtering; and TCP, iSCSI, and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload. For a maximum of interoperability, the MIC-5212 supports a PCIex4 (AMC Ports 4..7) or PCIex8 (AMC ports 4..11) host interface. The PCIe reference clock can be supplied over FLCKA or an onboard oscillator for systems which do not supply a PCIe reference clock. The MIC-5212 is compliant with both AMC.0 R1.0 and R2.0 specifications.

The MIC-5203 is a low power, quad-port GbE AMC, with copper RJ-45 or fiber SFP pluggable modules. It incorporates the Intel® 82580 Quad Gigabit Ethernet controller. The AMC provides a high performance PCIe x4 interface at 5 Gb/s per lane at an outstanding low power dissipation of less than 10W. Support for Intel’s offloading and platform enhancement features yields maximum network throughput while preserving valuable CPU cycles for application processing. The MIC-5203 features an Intel®82580 which provides Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c) and Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq), helping to reduce I/O bottlenecks, boost throughput, and reduce latency. Where virtualization is required, VMDq improves performance by offloading the data-sorting burden from the virtual machine manager (VMM) to the network controller. The MIC-5203’s specialized features include VLAN tagging, stripping and packet filtering; iSCSI, UDP, TCP and IP Checksum offload. For a maximum of interoperability, the MIC-5203 supports a PCIex4 (AMC Ports 4..7) host interface. The PCIe reference clock can be supplied over FLCKA or an onboard oscillator for systems which do not supply a PCIe reference clock. The MIC-5203 is compliant with both AMC.0 R1.0 and R2.0 specifications.