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AFE7950-SP

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Radiation-hardness-assured (RHA) 4-transmit 6-receive RF-sampling transceiver up to 12GHz

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AFE7950-SP

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Applications Avionics & Defense, Space Number of TXs and RXs 4 TX, 6 RX RF frequency (max) (MHz) 12000 RF frequency (min) (MHz) 600 Number of DUCs per TX 2 Number of DDCs per RX 2 Operating temperature range (°C) -45 to 105 Rating Catalog, Space
Applications Avionics & Defense, Space Number of TXs and RXs 4 TX, 6 RX RF frequency (max) (MHz) 12000 RF frequency (min) (MHz) 600 Number of DUCs per TX 2 Number of DDCs per RX 2 Operating temperature range (°C) -45 to 105 Rating Catalog, Space
FCBGA (ALK) 400 289 mm² 17 x 17
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* Radiation & reliability report AFE7950-SP TID Report PDF | HTML 16 Apr 2025
* Radiation & reliability report AFE7950-SP Single Event Effects Report PDF | HTML 09 Dec 2024
* Radiation & reliability report AFE7950-SP Production Flow and Reliability Report PDF | HTML 22 Apr 2024
White paper AFE7950-SP Usage in Satellite Communications (Rev. A) PDF | HTML 05 May 2026
Application note Cold Sparing on AFE7950-SP and AFE7950-SEP 03 Jul 2025
White paper How Innovative Semiconductors for Sensing Payloads in Satellites Help us Better Understand our World PDF | HTML 04 Feb 2025
Application note AFE79XX as a Chirp Signal Generator PDF | HTML 10 Jul 2024
Application note Debugging AFE7950 for Run Time and Post Bring-Up Failure PDF | HTML 28 Jun 2024
Technical article Phased array antenna systems: A new paradigm for electronics in satellites (Rev. A) PDF | HTML 11 Jun 2024
User guide AFE79xx SPI Bringup Guide With Xilinx FPGAs (Rev. A) PDF | HTML 05 May 2024
Application note AFE79xx as Single Chip Wideband Repeater Solution (Rev. A) PDF | HTML 30 May 2023
Application note Determining Optimal Receive Buffer Delay in JESD204B and JESD204C Receivers PDF | HTML 07 Jul 2022
Application note AFE7950 Super-Heterodyne Solution for K-Band PDF | HTML 15 Feb 2022
Application note How to Achieve Frequency Hopping with the AFE79xx 02 Jul 2020

Design & development

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Evaluation board

AFE7950EVM — AFE7950 evaluation module for four-transmit, six-receive, X-band, RF-sampling AFE

The AFE7950 family evaluation module (EVM) is a flexible RF-sampling transceiver platform that can be configured to support up to four-transmit, four-receive, and two-feedback (4T4R+2FB) channels simultaneously. The EVM interfaces with the TI pattern/capture card solution shown below (sold (...)

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Evaluation board

TRF-X-AFE7950EVM — TRF1213 and AFE7950 evaluation module

The TRF-X-AFE7950EVM evaluation module is used to evaluate the performance of TI's AFE79xx family of integrated RF sampling transceivers with TI's TRF1213 single-ended-to-differential (S2D) amplifier on RX. TRF-X-AFE7950EVM specifically uses AFE7950 transceiver. The AFE79xx devices support up to (...)
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Driver or library

AFE79XX-HSC-DESIGN — AFE79xx family high-speed transceiver design & support files

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Reference designs

TIDA-010260 — 4T5R space-grade integrated transceiver reference design

The 4T5R space-grade integrated transceiver reference design reference design incorporates a full RF sampling transceiver including a clocking solution and power solution. The design incoporates all -SEP flavor TI devices and space-qualified passives within a VITA-57 form factor.
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FCBGA (ALK) 400 Ultra Librarian
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