Analog Devices Inc. EV-ADF4377 Evaluation Board

Analog Devices Inc. EV-ADF4377 Evaluation Board is designed to evaluate the performance of ADF4377 frequency synthesizer with an integrated Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) for Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs). This self-contained board features a USB interface, power supply connectors, an onboard reference oscillator, propagation delay calibration paths, and Subminiature Version A (SMA) connectors. The EV-ADF4377 board VCO and output divider generate frequencies ranging from 800MHz to 12.8GHz. Typical applications include high-performance data converter and MxFE clocking, wireless infrastructure (MC-GSM and 5G), and test and measurement.

Features

Self-contained board includes:
- ADF4377 frequency synthesizer
- Integrated VCO, loop filter, and USB interface
- Onboard reference oscillator, propagation delay calibration paths, and voltage regulators

Windows^®-based software allows control of synthesizer functions from a PC
Multichip output phase alignment

Specifications

Externally powered by 6V
-160dBc/Hz at 12GHz wideband noise floor
PLL:
- -239dBc/Hz normalized in-band phase noise floor
- -147dBc/Hz normalized in-band 1/f noise
- Up to 500MHz phase detector frequency
- Up to 1000MHz reference input frequency
- -95dBc at f_OUT = 12GHz typical spurious f_PFD

800MHz to 12.8GHz output frequency range
Jitter = 18fs_RMS (100Hz to 100MHz integration bandwidth range)
Jitter = 27fs_RMS (ADC SNR method)
Reference input to output delay:
- 3ps device-to-device standard deviation
- 0.03ps/°C temperature coefficient
- < ±0.1ps adjustment step size

Applications

High-performance data converter and MxFE clocking
Wireless infrastructure (MC-GSM and 5G)
Test and measurement

Analog Devices Inc. EV-ADF4377 Evaluation Board

Features

Specifications

Applications

ADF4377 Functional Block Diagram

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