Seeking an Electronics Engineer to Evaluate a Broadcom Optical Wireless Transceiver Kit

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Are you an electronics design engineer? We need you to evaluate an Optical Wireless Transceiver Kit. We’ll send you the hardware. You get it keep it forever after you post a review.

Overview

The Broadcom® AFBR-FS50B00 is a transceiver that communicates data over free space and thereby allows for wireless communication in a variety of applications. Full-duplex bidirectional communication, together with a small form factor, allows a compact system design. The device keeps full functionality over a 360° rotation around the optical axis, which reduces the complexity of alignment at the system level. The AFBR-FS50B00, a Laser Class 1 product, is RoHS compliant and is designed for SMT solderability standard processes.

• Transmitter: The transmitter part of the AFBR-FS50B00 uses an 850-nm VCSEL. The VCSEL is driven by an IC, which converts differential input signals into an analog drive current. The transmitter IC can be enabled and disabled by means of the Tx EN pin.
• Receiver: The receiver part of the AFBR-FS50B00 uses a high-speed PIN photodiode and an IC. The IC implements the functionality of a transimpedance amplifier followed by a limiting amplifier for the generation of the logical output. The data output is differential. The receiver IC provides a monitor current (Imon) output and a signal detect (SD) output.

Features

• Data rate: 125 Mb/s to 5 Gb/s
• Distance range: 30 mm to 100 mm
• Bidirectional full-duplex
• Full function over a 360° rotation
• Small form factor
• Single 3.3V power supply
• Operational temperature range: 0°C to +85°C
• SMT solderability
• RoHS compliant
• Laser Class 1

Applications

• Optical wireless communication
• Through-window optical wireless communication
• Rotary optical data feedthrough
• Board-to-board communication

Description of Evaluation Kits

There are two kits being offered in this RoadTest:

• AFBR-FSEK50B00S SMA Evaluation Kit for the AFBR-FS50B00 Optical Wireless Transceiver
• AFBR-FSEK50B00E Gigabit Ethernet Evaluation Kit for the AFBR-FS50B00 Optical Wireless Transceiver

Note: The roadtester will be sent either the SMA or Gigabit Ethernet Eval kit, not both kits

Description of AFBR-FSEK50B00S SMA Evaluation Kit

The Broadcom® AFBR-FSEK50B00S evaluation kit is an evaluation platform for the AFBR-FS50B00 optical wireless transceiver. The documentation describes the two boards in the evaluation kit and includes a simple test setup to check whether the kit works correctly prior to testing any user application

The evaluation kit includes:

• Two PCBs with SMA connectors and AFBR-FS50B00 optical wireless transceiver
• Two jumpers

The evaluation kit does not include:

• Coaxial cables required for communication through the AFBR-FS50B00 optical wireless transceiver
• Cables required to supply power to the boards included in the evaluation kit

The AFBR-FSEK50B00S evaluation kit consists of two identical boards, facing each other. There are four 30-mm metal spacers placed between the two boards, which results in a distance between the two AFBR-FS50B00 optical wireless transceivers of 20 mm (top of the lens to top of the lens).

Description of AFBR-FSEK50B00E Gigabit Ethernet Evaluation Kit

The Broadcom® AFBRFSEK50B00E Evaluation Kit is an evaluation platform for the Optical Wireless

Transceiver AFBR-FS50B00. The documentation describes in detail the two types of boards in the evaluation kit and a very simple test setup used to check whether the kit works correctly prior to testing any user application. The evaluation kit AFBR-FSEK50B00E consists of four boards, grouped in two types: two Media Converter PCBs plus two Optical Wireless Transceiver Front-end PCBs.

The evaluation kit includes:

• Two PCBs with RJ-45 connector and IC BCM54210, which implements the functionality of a Media Converter (boards A and D).
• Two PCBs with Optical Wireless Transceiver AFBRFS50B00 (boards B and C in Figure 2).
• One USB memory stick containing technical documentation.

The evaluation kit does not include:

• CAT5 cables required for GbE communications between the evaluation kit and the user’s application.
• Micro USB cables required for power supply.

Go to Documentation below for more information.

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Documentation

• Product Brief for AFBR-FS50B00 Transceiver for Optical Wireless Communications
• Datasheet for AFBR-FS50B00 Transceiver for Optical Wireless Communications up to 5 Gb/s
• Datasheet for AFBR-FSEK50B00E Gigabit Ethernet Evaluation Kit
• Datasheet for AFBR-FSEK50B00S SMA Evaluation Kit

RoadTester Instructions

• The preferred way to test it would be to use it with something you are currently working on.
• Otherwise, working with the documentation, open the box and test the out of the box experience. Show the reader of this review what you discovered utilizing text, images, videos, and/or any other media, so the reader understands what is involved in using the product.

Important Dates

Terms and Conditions

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About the Sponsor

Broadcom Inc. is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, industrial and enterprise software. Our solutions include service provider and enterprise networking and storage, mobile device and broadband connectivity, mainframe, cybersecurity and private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.