Defense & Aerospace
Introduction
The continuously growing complexity of military and commercial use cases, the variety in mission roles and tasks of future operational scenarios require the highest sensor performances and flexibility, multi-band agility and optimized power consumption.
What if system designers could benefit from Application-Specific Standard Product in the Defense & Aerospace market instead of undergoing off-the-shelf solutions inherited from the Communication Market?
This is now possible with SCALINX:
- High dynamic range solutions with high tolerance to interference
- Low-distortion & Low-spurious RF A/D Converters
- Low phase-noise close to the carrier
- Wide RF/IF range & reconfigurable bandwidth
- Simultaneous multi narrow band capability
- Low-Power consumption & dissipation
Testimonials
“Our critical systems are primarily based on the quality of our sensors. In order to further improve their performance and power consumption, we wanted to use advanced signal conversion.
We have found at SCALINX the expertise and competitiveness to develop state-of-the-art analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion circuits that will be the core building blocks for multiple communication product lines.”
Vice President Hardware Technologies
“For its future sensors, we need a very high level of performances and low-power mixed-signal and digitization circuits. SCALINX's high dynamic range and low power analog RF, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion solutions will help us to develop our future systems.”
Hardware technical manager for RADAR Systems
Military Communication
In mobile tactical telecommunication size, performances, power (battery-powered), and cost are key to match operational scenarios in the field. Customers require high dynamic performances from DC to 104MHz, both in Transmit and Receive, Low-IF & Zero-IF reconfigurability & low power solutions.
To reach the performance and simplify system integration, we propose Transceivers integrating I/Q Continuous-Time (CT) ΔΣ Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) simplifying the analog interface (no Anti-Aliasing Filter and stable input resistance), combined with 16-bit current steering DAC delivering extreme linearity from DC to 104Mhz & very low noise density of -157dBm/Hz.
RADAR
The complexity of military and commercial radar scenarios grows rapidly to cover a multitude of functions: Surveillance, Air-to-Air, Air-to-Ground, Air-to-Sea, Tracking, Reconnaissance, Electronic Warfare, Real-Time data links. Several technical solutions have to be addressed (broadband/ multi-narrow band, multi-functional RF, Phased Array, Active Electronically Scanned Radar…) while, at the same time, reducing development cost/time and Bill of Material.
Digital Front End & RF solutions must be flexible enough to deliver high performances at appropriate power consumption for this multitude of configurations:
- High dynamic range receiver with high tolerance to interference
- Low-distortion & Low-spurious RF Conversion
- Low phase-noise close to the carrier
- Wide RF/IF range & reconfigurable bandwidth
- Low-Power
With SCALINX Tunable band pass Continuous-Time ΔΣ Analog-to-Digital architecture, it is now possible to achieve high performances on narrow bands spread over wide IF/RF.
SCALINX solutions can digitize x0MHz to x00MHz bands centered on intermediate frequency (IF) & Radio Frequency (RF) from 0.8 GHz to several GHz, enabling Direct conversion & Mono IF configuration for all Radar bands.
If you are looking for Application-Specific Standard Product or custom IC solutions flexible enough to address challenges across your portfolio, please contact us.
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
GNSS technology is key for many applications like military precision-guided munitions, precise time reference, mobile satellite communications, emergency, and location-based services. Protection from cyber threats such as spoofing and jamming, power consumption & dissipation, channel multiplication, and cost are some of the key challenges system designers have to face in this competitive market.
With its multi-narrow band architecture, SCALINX enables multi-band simultaneous digitization, reducing by 20% the power consumption & by 50% the size of Analog-to-Digital conversion in high-end Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna (CRPA) systems, with no compromise on performances with NSD down to 160dBFs/Hz and IF up to 2GHz. Thanks to its Continuous-Time (CT) ΔΣ Analog to Digital Converter architecture, system design and Bill of Material are also greatly simplified :
- Direct Conversion for GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS, and BEIDOU bands
- No Anti-Aliasing Filter & stable input resistance
If you are looking for Application-Specific Standard Products or a custom IC solution capable to address your challenges across your entire GNSS portfolio, from low-end to high-end, please contact us.
