I have received the evaluation board of ADF41020 recently. When I follow the user guide with the default setting, I cannot observe any output from the board. What should I do in this situation? Thanks
ADF41020
Not Recommended for New Designs
The ADF41020 frequency synthesizer can be used to implement local oscillators as high as 18 GHz in the up conversion and down conversion sections of wireless...
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ADF41020 on Analog.com
I have received the evaluation board of ADF41020 recently. When I follow the user guide with the default setting, I cannot observe any output from the board. What should I do in this situation? Thanks
Serial interface, and thus drivers must be working since you can communicate with the part. It is strange that device won't give any output from N counter or R counter so I think this is likely main device…
Set muxout control in bottom right of software to Dvdd, see if you can observe high logic on board muxout test point with multimeter. Repeat but with muxout set to gnd and check for low. This confirms device…