Apollo MxFE™ is ADI's newest ultrawideband sensor platform specifically developed for S-Band, X-Band Radar and Electronic Warfare applications.  It has an RF Input Bandwidth of DC to 18GHz, instantaneous bandwidth of up to 4GHz per channel, significant power efficient DSP, and best in class spurious free dynamic range.

The AD9088 is a highly integrated device with a 16-bit, 16 GSPS maximum sample rate, RF digital-to-analog converter (DAC) core, and 12-bit, 8 GSPS maximum sample rate, RF analog-to-digital converter (ADC) core. The AD9088 supports 8 transmit channels, 8 receive channels, and is well suited for applications requiring both wideband ADCs and DACs to process signal(s) having wide instantaneous bandwidth.

Analog Devices’ ADSY1100-series is a family of wideband multichannel RF digitizers in a 3UVPX SOSA™-aligned format. The system is built around ADI’s next generation Apollo MXFE™ product (AD9084) featuring DAC sample rates up to 28 GSPS and ADC sample rates up to 20 GSPS in a 4Tx /4Rx configuration.

The ADF4382 is a PLL/VCO synthesizer with a fundamental frequency output of up to 22GHz, extraordinary noise performance, temperature stability (0.06ps/C°), and <1ps alignment resolution.

The ADF430 is a device for time alignment of SYSREF signals to within 5ps for simultaneous sampling across multiple Apollo MxFE™ on the same card or across different chassis and ability to support two-dimensional system synchronization (fanout and/or daisy chain architectures) for very large systems.

ADL6331 and ADL6332 are Digital Controlled VGAs that are ideal to interface Apollo DACs and ADCs respectively, offering 50ohm differential to 50 ohm single-ended conversion in a wide frequency range of 0.38GHz to 15GHz with discrete levels of gain control. The parts eliminate the need for external baluns or any additional impedance matching circuits on the signal chain, featuring rejection of common mode, even order harmonics and intermodulation.

In this session, we will explore the evolution of MxFE technology, highlighting key architectural advancements, on-chip DSP innovations, and spur performance enabling direct RF sampling up to 18GHz.

Apollo MxFE is a new wideband mixed-signal front end platform offering instantaneous bandwidths as high as 10 GHz per channel while directly sampling and synthesizing frequencies up to 18 GHz (Ku Band). This monolithic 16 nm CMOS device utilizes state-of-the-art high dynamic range ADC and DAC cores with the best spurious free dynamic range and noise spectral density available on the market today.

Watch how four Apollo MxFE digitizer ICs on a single board improve multi-chip synchronization and multichannel calibration methods. Featured is an associated clock tree that includes four 22 GHz Clock ICs, power distribution network, and analog front ends comprising tunable filters and gain control to exemplify how an Apollo MxFE-hardened DSP is leveraged to correct digital and analog anomalies.

The Analog Devices ADSY1100 is a four-channel transmit, four-channel receive 3UVPX tuner plus digitizer platform all contained within a single 1-inch pitch chassis. By combining the tuner, digitizer, and processor and digitizer end system size and complexity may be reduced.