News | April 16, 2021

Analog Devices Announces 16-Channel, Mixed-Signal Front-End Digitizer For Reference Design Integration

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) introduced today a 16-channel, mixed-signal front-end (MxFE) digitizer for aerospace and defense applications, including phased array radars, electronic warfare, and ground-based SATCOM (satellite communications). The new digitizer includes four AD9081 or four AD9082 software-defined, direct RF sampling transceivers. It is designed to accelerate customer development by providing reference RF signal chains, software architectures, power supply designs, and application example code. ADI also introduced a digitizing card to complement the platform and facilitate system-level calibration algorithms and demonstration of power-up phase determinism.

View the product page at: https://www.analog.com/en/design-center/evaluation-hardware-and-software/evaluation-boards-kits/Quad-MxFE.html

Watch a video about the mixed-signal front-end digitizer and digitizing card: https://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/videos/6184061669001.html.

Connect with engineers and ADI product experts on EngineerZone™, an online technical support community: http://ez.analog.com

ADQUADMXFE1EBZ 16-Channel, Mixed-Signal Front-End Digitizer Key Features:

  • 16x RF receive (Rx) channels (32x digital Rx channels)
  • 16x RF transmit (Tx) channels (32x digital Tx channels)
  • Provided application-specific examples in MATLAB® application scripts and a GUI
  • Flexible clock distribution

ADQUADMXFE-CAL Digitizing Card Key Features:

  • Provides both individual adjacent channel loopback and combined channel loopback options
  • Combined Tx and Rx channels output via SMA connectors
  • On-board log power detectors with AD5592R digitization

Pricing and Availability

Product Description Availability Price Each Packaging
ADQUADMXFE1EBZ Quad-MxFE (2nd Nyquist Rx Operation, Populated with AD9081) Now $12,000 Box with Power Supply & Some Associated Cabling
ADQUADMXFE2EBZ Quad-MxFE (1st Nyquist Rx Operation, Populated with AD9081) Jun-21 $12,000 Box with Power Supply & Some Associated Cabling
ADQUADMXFE3EBZ Quad-MxFE (Wideband Variant, Populated with AD9082) Jun-21 $12,000 Box with Power Supply & Some Associated Cabling
ADQUADMXFE-CAL 16 Tx / 16 Rx Calibration Board Now $2,500 Box with Power Supply & Some Associated Cabling

About Analog Devices, Inc.
Analog Devices is a leading global high-performance semiconductor company dedicated to solving the toughest engineering challenges. We enable our customers to interpret the world around us by intelligently bridging the physical and digital with unmatched technologies that sense, measure, power, connect and interpret. For more information, visit http://www.analog.com.

Source: Analog Devices, Inc.