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UHD - Daughterboard Application Notes
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Daughterboard Properties
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The following contains interesting notes about each daughterboard.
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Eventually, this page will be expanded to list out the full
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properties of each board as well.
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Basic RX and and LFRX
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The Basic RX and LFRX boards have 3 subdevices:
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* **Subdevice A:** real signal on antenna RXA
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* **Subdevice B:** real signal on antenna RXB
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* **Subdevice AB:** quadrature subdevice using both antennas
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The boards have no tunable elements or programmable gains.
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Though the magic of aliasing, you can down-convert signals
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greater than the Nyquist rate of the ADC.
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Basic TX and and LFTX
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The Basic TX and LFTX boards have 1 quadrature subdevice using both antennas.
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The boards have no tunable elements or programmable gains.
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Though the magic of aliasing, you can up-convert signals
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greater than the nyquist rate of the DAC.
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DBSRX
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The DBSRX board has 1 quadrature subdevice.
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Receive Antennas: **J3**
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The board has no user selectable antenna setting
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Recieve Gains: 
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    **GC1**, Range: 0-56dB
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    **GC2**, Range: 0-24dB
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RFX Series
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Transmit Antennas: **TX/RX**
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Receive Antennas: **TX/RX** or **RX2**
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The user may set the receive antenna to be TX/RX or RX2.
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However, when using an RFX board in full-duplex mode,
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the receive antenna will always be set to RX2, regardless of the settings.
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Recieve Gains: **PGA0**, Range: 0-70dB (except RFX400 range is 0-45dB)
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XCVR 2450
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The XCVR2450 has a non-contiguous tuning range consisting of a high band and a low band.
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The high band consists of frequencies between...TODO
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Transmit Antennas: **J1** or **J2**
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Receive Antennas: **J1** or **J2**
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When using the XCVR2450 in full-duplex mode,
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the user must set the receive antenna and the transmit antenna to be different;
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not doing so will yeild undefined results.
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The XCVR2450 uses a common LO for both receive and transmit.
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Even though the API allows the RX and TX LOs to be individually set,
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a change of one LO setting will be reflected in the other LO setting.
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Transmit Gains:
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 * **VGA**, Range: 0-30dB
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 * **BB**, Range: 0-5dB
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 * **LNA**, Range: 0-30.5dB
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Transmit Antennas: **TX/RX**
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Receive Antennas: **TX/RX** or **RX2**
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The user may set the receive antenna to be TX/RX or RX2.
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However, when using an WBX board in full-duplex mode,
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the receive antenna will always be set to RX2, regardless of the settings.
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Transmit Gains: **PGA0**, Range: 0-25dB
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Recieve Gains: **PGA0**, Range: 0-31.5dB