Join us in-person at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2024 where we will be showcasing the industry’s most complete, high-performance digitization and processing platform—Apollo MxFE™! Experience first-hand how ADI’s latest RF, microwave, millimeter wave technologies, clocking, amplifier, and power solutions are working together to enable unprecedented system-level solutions for communications, instrumentation, aerospace, and defense customers.
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Tao Yu
Director of Machine Learning
Physics Informed Machine Learning based Digital Predistortion of RF Power Amplifiers
Date: Sunday, June 15
Time: 8:00 am – 11:50 am
Location:Room 204
Considering the environmental impact of radio access technologies alongside traditional performance metrics that have driven the evolution of 4G and 5G systems, it’s essential to recognize that wireless infrastructure consumes a significant portion of energy used by communication service providers.
Bryan Goldstein
Corporate Vice President
RF Bootcamp | IMS Microwave Week
Tx/Rx Communications System Digital-to-RF Design and Test
Date: Monday, June 16
Time: 8:00 am – 5:20 pm
Location: Room 212-214
This session will cover a multi-channel Tx/Rx RFMW Communications System design and how RFMW and digital domains are merging to allow advanced design and characterization techniques.
John Cowles
Senior Director of Engineering and Technology
Co-Organizers: Travis Forbes (Sandia National Laboratories), Salvatore Finocchiaro (Qorvo)
Date: Monday, June 16
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location: Room 216
Large corporations are investing billions of dollars building thousands of LEO satellites to offer broadband internet services to rural and under-developed areas. In addition, many countries are jumping onto this wagon to secure their own access to the internet as part of a national security policy. On the other hand, the high satellite launch cost, hardware cost, and high monthly subscription fees do not seem to fit the objective of providing broadband access to the general earth population, many of whom are living in poverty. Come join the panel and find out if this is expensive space junk or a revolution in broadband internet access.
John Cowles
Senior Director of Engineering and Technology
A MIMO Perspective of Phased Arrays and its Applications
Date: Wednesday, June 18
Time: 8:00 am pm
Location: Room 203
Phased arrays are most often thought of as a way to electronically focus, steer, direct and receive energy. In this traditional modality, all the antenna elements work cooperatively to illuminate and observe radar targets or to transmit and receive communications signals in a directed way. It turns out that multiple-in multiple-out (MIMO) systems have many degrees of freedom that can be explored to implement a variety of imaging, spatial spectrum analysis and energy steering systems, not to mention other radar and data transmission modalities. Extracting more value from phased arrays requires RF, analog, digital signal processing and high performance compute to be jointly optimized.
Explore a high-performance prototyping platform for next-generation electronic warfare. The Apollo MxFE(R) wideband Direct-RF transceiver plus AMD Versal (TM) adaptive SoC development platform, delivers ultra-low latency digital loopback and real-time FFT spectrum sniffing. Together, they enable rapid development and deployment of EW at the edge with the speed, latency, and agility demanded by modern defense systems.
A four-channel transmit, four-channel receive 3UVPX tuner plus digitizer platform all contained within a single 1-inch pitch chassis has been developed leveraging a multichannel high-speed digitizer integrated circuit (IC). The system enables wideband digitization up to 5GSPS data rates per channel covering a frequency tuning range between 0.1-20GHz and is comprised of both a Digitizer Base Card and a Tuner Personality Card. The digital offload options include on-board memory as well as both copper and optical Ethernet interfaces enabled by a FPGA/SoC combination collocated with a multichannel digitizer IC on the Digitizer Base Card. The front-end networks which leverage new multi-function RF Front end IC technology for the Tuner Personality Card is also covered. Additionally, this paper describes plans to enable key digitizer IC hardened digital signal processing (DSP) features often required for electronic warfare applications, such as low latency loopback, fast-frequency-hopping, on-chip FFT sniffing and dynamic decimation/interpolation reconfiguration.
Explore a variety of hardware platforms that augment and enable capabilities across Analog Devices' Narrowband Transceiver portfolio. A breakout board for the Nevis family of transceivers (ADRV910x) accelerates the development of your embedded application software. A VCO reference design enables best phase noise performance for Nevis-based, high-performance radio applications. The new "Dual Navassa" evaluation system provides a platform for evaluating the RF Multi-Chip Sync (MCS) capabilities of the ADRV900x series Transceivers. And lastly, the new AD9310 evaluation system provides a compact development platform that is ideal for assessing the capabilities of the AD9310 integrated GNSS RF front end.
Learn more about the Apollo MxFE(R) AD9088 (8T8R) in a multi-band Radar application. Operating across both S-band and X-band, the system highlights high-performance transmit and receive paths, fast frequency hopping, and on-chip digital error correction capabilities. Witness how fast switching of hardened IP showcases Apollo's agility for multi-band, multi-mission phased array radar systems.
How can you synchronize a plethora of RF sub-system tiles, clocked at 12.8GSPS, that could be meters or even tens of meters away from each other? Learn how to synchronize a large, phased array system by nulling out path delay differences. Witness a multi-chip sync across two x-band 16T/16R systems with different spatial distances from their sync source.
Witness firsthand what ADRV9002 agile transceiver is capable of. The ADRV9002 can operate frequency hopping over its full 30MHz to 6GHz frequency range hopping as fast as 13us, fulfilling Link16 requirements. While hopping it can support PA linearization utilizing internal Digital Pre-Distortion engine. You will see DPD improving ACPR by up to >70DBc while dynamically hopping over a number of channels. ADRV9002 can utilize its receiver gain control block to settle gain very fast ensuring uninterrupted reception of the signal.
Extracting data from high-performance, high-data-rate analog signal chains for AI model training and real-time inference has become a key trend, driven by the shift from traditional signal processing to AI-driven flows. Learn how ADI leverages an NVIDIA-based platform to build a complete data extraction framework, built on top of open-source software, open-source FPGA infrastructure, and scalable host-side data management flows. It targets ADI’s Apollo MxFE (AD9084) in a 3UVPX system (ADI ADSY1100) to streamline the development and deployment of AI-capable and intelligent edge systems.
Experience ADI’s 10GSPS DC-Coupled Digitizer in a realistic simulation of a time-of-flight spectroscopy system. Utilizing the 5GHz analog bandwidth of the AD9213 RF ADC enables direct sampling of time-domain signals with durations of less than 1ns while accurately recording DC baseline voltage levels thanks to a fully DC-coupled signal chain. Built-in DC offset adjustment capability allows for this baseline to be shifted by a user-programmable value, meaning the digitizer solution can handle a wide range of input signal waveforms and DC voltage levels. In addition, the synchronized 40MSPS precision signal path enabled by the AD4080 precision SAR ADC measures the same input signal in parallel, significantly reducing 1/f noise for wideband time-domain applications.
Traditionally, FPGs and custom ASICs are used to interface with and process data from ADI's high speed signal chains. Experience a new architecture of a software defined approach to processing high speed RF data by leveraging general purpose compute platforms at the edge or cloud.
Witness ADI's 6G FR3 reference design's instrument grade performance for conductive and OTA test applications. A modulated IF signal is upconverted to 7.1 GHz, an anticipated 6G carrier frequency and travels over the air. The FR3 receiver front end down-converts it to a modulated IF signal. The measured EVM matches high performing T&M requirements.
Learn about ADI’s ADMX3001 Device Power Supply as the bias (source) for RF power amplifier-(PA) characterization. Bias conditions (voltage bias, current limit) are swept programmatically while applying various test signals (including level and potentially predistortion) to the input of the PA under test using an analog signal generator and measuring the resulting distortion using a spectrum analyzer. See how the power delivery capabilities (up to 1A per Channel @ 5V) and configuration flexibility of this instrument support both laboratory characterization as well as production test.
Experience the importance and impact of noise in various power supplies through audio and visual displays. ADI's Silent Switcher 3 technology offers a switching regulator that can enhance a system’s power efficiency and reduce both output noise and solution size.
µModule DC/DC power products deliver single and multi-channel power solutions, supporting a diverse range of power levels and input and output voltages in advanced and reliable packages. µModule DC/DC products have a 20-year history of providing enhanced electrical, mechanical, and thermal performance.
ADI’s latest µModule regulators with patented silent switcher technology feature low EMI and low RMS and spot noise, eliminating the need for LC pi-filter or LDO post-filtering downstream of switching converters in noise-sensitive applications. The LTM8060F features integrated package-level EMI shielding, enabling a smaller overall solution by allowing it to be placed near noise-sensitive circuits: the DC/DC’s electric field is completely confined; the radiated magnetic field is greatly attenuated.
ADI's new synchronization and time alignment methods make system design easier for military phase array applications, communication's massive MIMO or any instrumentation applications that requires multi-chip synchronization or pico second alignment. Our leading-edge phase noise clocks and LO enables high speed data converter and Mixer application to achieve their systems performance targets. Fast frequency hopping is key in many ADEF and instrumentation applications.
Experience ADI's flexible RF front-end solution tailored for multi-band radar and electronic warfare (EW) applications. By leveraging a low-loss RF path selector and highly tunable signal chain components, see how ADI’s latest switches and amplifiers enable adaptable, high-performance system designs. This solution addresses the need for compact, wideband, and reconfigurable architectures in defense, aerospace, and high-frequency communications.
ADI's Wideband RF Front-end Reference Design addresses many wideband architectural challenges within the Aerospace & Defense and Instrumentation applications. Our complete RF Front-end solution utilizes new frequency conversion IC's that extend operation up to 55GHz, tunable BPFs, gain-ranging SiPs, and wideband synthesizer technology while leveraging the high sample rate of ADI's Apollo MxFE to reduce system complexity, SWaP-C, and Time-to-Market.
ADI’s Radioverse Transceivers contain advanced architectures for balancing power and BW performance coupled with high channel count and optimal digital capability. Join us in discussing the suitability of these products for ADEF and instrumentation needs with 7.1GHz BW operation, 8 Tx / Rx channels and enhanced DPD / CFR performance solutions.
Witness Energy Efficient Radio with our latest Samana O-RU SoC with advanced Energy Saving Features such as Microsleep DTX. This technology continually monitors incoming radio traffic and intelligently shutdowns the power amplifiers and transceiver signal chain components on a per symbol basis. In this lower traffic scenario energy savings up to 40% can be achieved.
Experience ADI's DPD linearizing a Macro Power Amplifier on a Titan platform that includes Samana - ADI's highly integrated, 16nm 4T4R ORAN Radio SOC. ADI DPD IP is a crucial enabler for ORAN customers and key differentiating feature for ADI transceivers to meet emission specs and improve Power Amplifier efficiency resulting in energy/cost savings.