High IF Sampling Puts Wideband Software-Defined Radio Within Reach

By Benjamin Annino, ADI

Multiband radar and electronic warfare (EW) applications put a high value on wideband, high dynamic range, agile spectral monitoring. Increasingly higher sample rate data converters are allowing architecture changes to the radio front end that shrink size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), maintain performance, and evolve toward software programmable common hardware. In this article, Analog Devices explains the technology advancements enabling this age of wideband software-defined radio expected to transform EW and multiband radar architectures.