Mixed-Signal Modules

April 1, 2012

Mercury Computer Systems (Chelmsford, MA) has released two small-form-factor-based products with SWaP characteristics: the Echotek® Series RFM-251-XMC tuner and the wideband DCMV6- XMC digital transceiver. The mixed-signal modules detect, locate, and capture signals in real-time.

The RFM-251-XMC tuner supports a broad frequency range from 20 MHz to 2.5 GHz, converting detected signals to digital IF. The IF is pre-digitized via a high-fidelity analog-to-digital converter, and routed onto a Virtex-6 field programmable gate array (FPGA) for filtering and protocol processing. The Echotek Series DCM-V6-XMC digital transceiver combines the wideband analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a high-speed digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and dual Virtex-6 FPGAs.