Qualcomm Technologies, known as the world’s leading wireless technology innovator, offers an extensive portfolio of RF front-end (RFFE) micro-acoustic filter products. These are designed to help address 5G design challenges while improving RF performance. This in turn helps manufacturers develop power-efficient 5G multiband, multimode mobile devices in sleek form factors and industrial designs.
The company just announced a new RFFE module yesterday. This module will bring 5G along with WiFi 7 support to all the next generation of devices. They’ve noted that this RFFE solution is the best companion for an up-to-date mobile modem as it grants access to the new spec of “5G/Wi-Fi coexistence” on a given device, along with battery savings and better performance.
Naturally, the new Qualcomm tech is compatible with smartphones, but also with other IoT devices, VR headsets, and car systems. In this case of devices, you can actually get concurrent support for 5G and Wi-Fi 7/ 6E connections, which will result in much faster speeds and performance.
“With Qualcomm Technologies’ new products, we are extending our RFFE leadership into automotive and IoT, helping OEMs address their massive industry-specific challenges like development cost and scalability,” said Christian Block, senior vice president and general manager, RFFE, QUALCOMM Germany RFFE GmbH. “OEMs using our solutions can design products with higher performance, longer battery life and reduced commercialization time, ultimately accelerating the pace of innovation and delivering improved experiences to consumers.”
What is a RFFE module?
RFFE stands for Radio Frequency Front End. The RF front end is generally defined as everything between the antenna and the digital baseband system. For a receiver, this “between” area includes all the filters, low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), and down-conversion mixer(s) needed to process the modulated signals received at the antenna into signals suitable for input into the baseband analog-to-digital converter (ADC). It is for this reason that the RF front end is often called the analog-to-digital or RF-to-baseband portion of a receiver.
Qualcomm is currently sampling the new front end modules to customers. As for commercial devices featuring the new solutions, these are expected to launch by the second half of 2022.
You can read all about the latest Qualcomm RFFE module here.
