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In this lesson we are going to take a brief familiarization of a typical block diagram of a cellphone.
Block Diagram can help us understand the flow of a certain part of a cellphone's circuit.
A Cell-phone handset is basically composed of two sections,
which is RF and Baseband Sections.
RF
RF refers to radio frequency, the mode of communication for wireless technologies of all kinds,
including cordless phones, radar, ham radio, GPS, and radio and television broadcasts. RF technology is
so much a part of our lives we scarcely notice it for its ubiquity. From baby monitors to cell phones,
Bluetooth to remote control toys, RF waves are all around us. RF waves are electromagnetic waves
which propagate at the speed of light, or 186,000 miles per second (300,000 km/s). The frequencies of
RF waves, however, are slower than those of visible light, making RF waves invisible to the human eye.
Baseband
In signal processing, baseband describes signals and systems whose range of frequencies is measured
from zero to a maximum bandwidth or highest signal frequency. It is sometimes used as a noun for a
band of frequencies starting at zero.
In telecommunications, it is the frequency range occupied by a message signal prior to modulation.
It can be considered as a synonym to low-pass.
Baseband is also sometimes used as a general term for part of the physical components of a wireless
communications product. Typically, it includes the control circuitry (microprocessor), the power supply,
and amplifiers.
A baseband processor is an IC that is mainly used in a mobile phone to process communication
functions.
Basically Baseband also composed of to sections which is the Analog and Digital Processing Sections.
So, we are going to separate each other for better and easier to understand.
Cell-phone have three different sections which is the following.
I prepare this to be simple and easy instead of using or explaining it with deep technical terms .
In this manner, it is easy for us to understand the concepts and methods of how basically the cellphone
works.
Cell-phone have three sections since baseband is differentiated by into two which is the Analog and
Digital function while the RF section remains as a whole circuit section.. which is the following cosists.
1. Radio Frequency (RF Section)
2. The Analog Baseband Processor
3. And the Digital Baseband Processor.
Various mobile phones have different concepts and design on every aspects, but the methods and
operational flow are all exactly the same. It differs on how and what certain IC chips and parts they are
being used and installed to a certain mobile phone circuitry.