1 Introduction

This user's guide introduces a wireless development platform using Texas Instruments’ AFE7769D evaluation module (EVM) in collaboration with Hitek Systems, a hardware company and partner of Intel that provides field programmable gated array (FPGA)-based evaluation modules to companies within the communications industry. This reference solution serves to help customers ramp up system integration of the analog front-end (AFE), and provides a “quick evaluation and prototyping platform for 5G ORAN and wireless solutions”, per Hitek Systems.

The AFE7769D is a 4T4R2F RF-sampling transceiver with integrated digital pre-distortion (DPD) that serves to linearize power amplifiers (PA’s) for improved wireless coverage to the end customer. The wireless development platform utilizes the EVM version of the device, which interfaces with Hitek’s component of the solution via an FPGA mezzanine card (FMC+) connector. The Agilex embedded System On Module (eSOM7) is an FPGA module that interacts with the AFE7769DEVM through the FMC+ connector. This hardware is based on Intel Agilex® 7 SoC FPGA built using intel 10 nm SuperFin process technology.

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