Wideband Mixed-Signal Front End Platform: Apollo MxFE
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.
Apollo MxFE is available as a 4-channel transmit and receive (4T4R) with an ADC/DAC sample rate of 20 GSPS/28 GSPS or an 8-channel transmit and receive (8T8R) with an ADC/DAC sample rate of 8 GSPS/16 GSPS respectively. FPGA compute can be offloaded to the Apollo MxFE on-chip digital signal processing (DSP) saving size, weight, power, and cost. The DSP is all dynamically reconfigurable without requiring recalibration, offering a highly flexible platform to enable breakthrough innovations in aerospace and defense, instrumentation, and communications.