Texas Instruments unveils most powerful digital up and down converter

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) doesn’t just make chips, it also makes software-defined digital up and down converter (DUC/DDC), and today the firm has announced its most powerful to date.

Dubbed the GC6016, TI says its converter is perfect for narrow and wideband 2G, 3G and 4G wireless base stations and digital repeaters, software defined radios (SDRs), MIMO transceivers and wideband digitizers.

According to TI tThe GC6016 supports one to 48 DUC/DDC channels across four transmit and eight receive streams with up to 155 million samples per second (MS/s) composite bandwidth.

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