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Digital Wireless Repeater

Wireless Repeater diagram

Wireless repeaters are the most often used devices in modern wireless communication systems. Owing to the advantages of lower cost and less complexity than base stations, they have been widely used in shopping malls, hotels, subways, airports to eliminate the signal blind/weak areas to expand signal coverage.


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Wireless repeaters receive signals with their antennas, filter out noise by the functions such as filtering and low noise amplification, and then amplify desired signals’ power before transmission. Wireless repeaters can be classified into analog, fiber optical and digital types. Among them digital repeaters are built on software defined radio (SDR) technology and use digital IF (Intermediate Frequency) units instead of analog ones, allowing relay for different wireless protocols just by adjusting software configuration of digital IF units.

A digital repeater is basically made up with RF and digital IF circuits. The RF circuit is built with a low-noise amplifier, analog up and down converters, analog filter, and power amplifiers; it is mainly responsible for low-noise amplification, analog up and down conversion, power amplification, and analog filtering. The digital IF circuit includes an ADC, DAC, digital up and down converters and digital filters to implement A/D and D/A conversions, digital up and down conversion, as well as digital signal filtering, respectively. FPGAs could be used as an integrated solution for digital IF units. [-LESS]

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Conducting digital up and down conversion, and reducing data transfer speed for DSP
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Amplifying signals before reception & transmission

ACMD-7403-BLK
ACMD-7403-BLK
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ADL5536ARKZ
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A RF amplifier with low-noise figure

ACMD-7403-BLK
ACMD-7403-BLK
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ADL5536ARKZ
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AD8351ARMZ
AD8351ARMZ
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Used before power amplifier to amplify small RF signals
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Used before power amplifier to amplify small RF signals
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Mixing of IF/RF with oscillator to desired frequency

SA602AD
LT5527EUF
LT5527EUF#PBF
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AD831APZ
AD831APZ
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Up converter and down converter
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Up converter and down converter
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Up converter and down converter
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A wide-band high-speed DAC used to convert digital IF signals into analog IF signals
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A wide-band high-speed DAC used to convert digital IF signals into analog IF signals
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A wide-band high-speed ADC used to convert analog IF signals into digital IF signals
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A wide-band high-speed ADC used to convert analog IF signals into digital IF signals
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Multiplexing of signals during reception & transmission

ACMD-7403-BLK
ACMD-7403-BLK
Avago Technologies
ACMD-7602-TR1G
ACMD-7602-TR1G
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ACMD-7612-TR1G
ACMD-7612-TR1G
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Multiplexing of signals during reception & transmission

ACMD-7403-BLK
ACMD-7403-BLK
Avago Technologies
ACMD-7602-TR1G
ACMD-7602-TR1G
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ACMD-7612-TR1G
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Temperature Sensor
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Temperature Sensor
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Detecting IF/RF signals

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LT5534ESC6#PBF
Linear Technology
AD8302ARUZ
AD8302ARUZ
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MAX4003EUA+
MAX4003EUA+
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Detecting IF/RF signals

LT5534ESC6#PBF
LT5534ESC6#PBF
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MAX4003EUA+
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Provides up/down conversion to IF or RF

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TLC2932IPWG4
Texas Instruments

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VCO+PLL

TLC2932IPWG4
TLC2932IPWG4
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Filtering unwanted out-of-band signals

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0915LP15B026E
Johanson Technology

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Filtering unwanted out-of-band signals

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0915LP15B026E
Johanson Technology

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