MAXENTRIC TECHNOLOGIES LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF171-128

MAXENTRIC TECHNOLOGIES LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$149,904
Agency
Department of Defense · Air Force
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
AF171-128
Solicitation
2017.1
NAICS
Place of performance
NJ
Period
2017-08-11 → 2018-05-11

Description

Next generation satellite communication systems must be robust to hostile jammers which degrade link budget and desensitize reception. A proposed solution is to use frequency hopping techniques to communicate in a spectrum space free of hostile jammers and an all digital radio in which the agility and robustness is provided by high dynamic range and ENOB (16 bit) data-converters. To this end, broadband high dynamic range ADCs are needed to cover the broad-spectrum of interest allowing full coverage from GPS L1 to L2. To meet this demand, MaXentric proposes to take advantage of our previous program success in L-band ADC design Phase I and expertise in digital pre-distortion linearization correction. Our solution is comprised of classical pipelined ADC IC design married with advanced digital correction techniques to meet the solicitation of >100 MS/sec and ENOB of 16 bits.