Cores form basis for software defined radio

Core set includes an ultra-high-speed ADC core that addresses 50Gsample/s sampling.

TiaLinx has developed ultrawideband (UWB) A/D convertor, multiplexer and demultiplexer cores for design of customised products.

"The core designs were developed with the support of DARPA/Army's contract number W31P4Q-06-C0380 for advanced wafer scale based radar systems", says Dr Fred Mohamadi, Founder and CEO of TiaLinx.

"Taking advantage of greater than 200GHz cutoff frequency offered in a SiGe process and advanced design architecture of TiaLinx, the Cheetah core set is revolutionising multidiscipline DoD and commercial projects and positioning TiaLinx to be a leader in addressing applications related to precision target detection, test and instrumentation, and optical networking markets".

The core set includes an ultra-high-speed ADC core that addresses 50Gsample/s sampling.

The ADC core interfaces to an ultra-high-speed demux core to address distributed signal processors.

Unique features of the ADC core is its design to address SFDR above 27dBc and a power consumption of less than 10W.

A companion mux core has also been implemented to address the entire integrated core set's testability.

The mux and demux cores have capability of greater than 100Gbit/s link routing and have programmable, reconfigurable number of I/Os.

Onboard PRBS engines for in-situ testability are being designed for next generation core set.

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