Remoted Analog-to-Digital Converter with De-serialization and Reconstruction (RADER)
Abstract
(U)The objective of the Remoted Analog-to-Digital Converter with De-serialization and Reconstruction (RADER) program is to develop a novel analog to digital converter (ADC) front-end that acts as a performance multiplier for conventional ADCs. This program is an outgrowth of the Analog-to-Information research. The military's need to operate in dense signal environments, performing friendly communications and detecting low-power adversarial signals concurrently, requires ADCs with unparalleled resolution and wide instantaneous bandwidth (IBW). Commercial systems available today are capable of achieving high resolution, or wide bandwidth, but not both at the same time. To meet the military's need, the RADER program will develop a system that uses many commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) ADCs in conjunction with a novel de-serializer front-end architecture to meet both the resolution and bandwidth requirements simultaneously. ADC systems enabled by RADER technology will be capable of operating in continuous time over a 10 GHz input IBW with a signal-to-noise resolution of 10 effective number of bits, an 8 bit improvement over COTS ADCs. These improvements will be accomplished using a remotable architecture in which most of the ADC's size, weight and power will be remotely located from the signal environment—where space and supply power are more readily available (such as below a ship's deck) and the system itself will not alter the platform's center of gravity or create deleterious electronic noise for other systems
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 5d7e4c81b87d10e55a5f9b4fd1453ccf
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