Hi Jean-Samuel and Andrey,
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 18:25, Jean-Samuel Najnudel - BJT PARTNERS SARL jsn@bjtpartners.com wrote:
However, I really believe the preselector should remain on the UmTRX main PCB. If we want to connect the preselector as an external mezzanine board, it would cost us 5 extra SMA connectors (RX1in, RX1out, RX2in, RX2out, clock source), 2 RF switches before the superhet filtering (to still be able to have switched diversity), several GPIO (serial mixer control, RF switches control) and power supply. This is possible but it would really cost much more than keeping the preselector on the main PCB, especially as I believe, in practice, we will need almsot always this preselector, even not to pass the GSM spec but just to be able to get a reasonably narrow sampling bandwidth. I would really suggest to keep the preselector in the main PCB and populating or not the components (VCO/PLL, mixer and SAW IF).
Could we save on connectors if we use some RF side connector with many pins? Nothing specific in mind, just thinking out loud.