Plextek developed SDR transceiver offers a powerful and customisable platform for defence and civil applications

Plextek's electronics design services include:FPGA design, ESCAN Radar, MMIC design, GPRS design, Communications product design, Microwave design Defence electronics, Electronic product design, RF design, DSP design, Telemetry system, System Integration,Communications system design, Due diligence

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Plextek developed SDR transceiver offers a powerful and customisable platform for defence and civil applications

Issued 29/11/2007

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, has developed a unique broadband digital transceiver platform covering a wide frequency range and incorporating a powerful and customisable baseband processor section.

Key specifications include a frequency range of 400MHz to 4GHz (including fine frequency and gain adjustment of instrumentation quality), 20 MHz bandwidth, high linearity with excellent EVM (Error Vector Magnitude), including substantial baseband signal processing capability implemented in multiple dual core processors and FPGAs.

This Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform will be useful in both civil and defence applications, providing reduced time to market and the ability to customise its capabilities depending on the user's requirements. The platform is capable of rapid reconfiguration and is able to support all modern comms standards including WLAN, GSM, 3G, LTE, WiFi, Sat Comms, TETRA and Digital or Video Audio Broadcast.

Typical defence applications include high spectral purity broadband waveform synthesis, adaptive jamming, advanced ECM and ESM and complex broadband channel simulation.

The platform is ideally suited for system development and customisation either by Plextek or directly by users themselves.