Rfmipi PDF
Rfmipi PDF
Rfmipi PDF
• Physical Layer
– CMOS Single-Ended I/Os (1.2V and 1.8V)
• Fundamental features
– High performance (up to 52 MHz bus speed)
– Low power
– Low EMI
– Point to multi-point
• Use Cases
– 5G/LTE-A
– MIMO
– Carrier aggregation uplink/downlink
– WiFi/Bluetooth
– Industries
• Overview
• Originally released in July 2010 as v1.00.00, the
MIPI RF Front-End Control Interface, MIPI RFFESM,
is a dedicated control interface for the RF front-
end subsystem. It enhances the control of the
complex RF subsystem environment, which has
rigorous performance requirements and can
include 10 to 20 components such as power
amplifiers, antenna tuners, filters and switches
• . The interface can be applied to the full range
of RF front-end components to simplify
product design, configuration and integration,
and to facilitate interoperability of
components supplied by different vendors.
• New features in the current release, MIPI RFFE v2.1,
address ongoing changes in mobile technology and
anticipate how system designers' needs will evolve with the
commercialization of 5G. For example, the new Master
Context Transfer (MCT) RFFE command sequence, where
one of the masters on a multi-master RFFE bus shuttles
larger amounts of information from one master to another,
enables quick hops between radio technologies that can be
controlled via different radio chains. The multi-master
feature was introduced in RFFE v2.0, but the addition of
MCT command sequences in RFFE v2.1 provides more
efficient master-to-master transfer when larger amounts of
data are involved.
• MIPI RFFE v2.1 also extends the number of
triggers, which are used to synchronize changes
in register settings within a slave device, and
potentially across multiple devices, from 3 to 11.
Another added capability, Masked Write
command sequence, enables a transceiver's
software to control individual bits within
programmable registers in a front-end slave
device, giving software developers more
flexibility in how they apply configuration
changes.
• The MIPI RF Front-End Control Interface is used by RF device
vendors, baseband and transceiver vendors, and mobile OEMs. It is
a two-wire interface that uses unterminated single-ended CMOS
I/Os for lower power. It can be used with a broad range of bus
operating frequencies and features synchronous read capability,
multi-master configuration, support for carrier aggregation and the
use of multiple transceivers and dual-SIM designs, interrupt-capable
slave functionality, and reserved registers that improve the
efficiency of hardware and software development. MIPI RFFE v2.1
also extends trace lengths of RFFE buses, up to 45 cm from the
standard 15 cm, in response to cellular, Wi-Fi and other wireless
technologies being used in more than just handheld products such
as smartphones.
• Thank You