Converter for aerospace and defence applications

Analog Devices has introduced a 2.6GHz A/D converter engineered to address the high bandwidth and dynamic range needs of aerospace and defence applications.

The AD9625BBP-2.6 is a 12bit A/D converter suited to the frequency planning and signal sensitivity requirements of electronic surveillance and counter-measure applications, such as radar systems, secure communications networks and electronic signals monitoring.

It has a noise floor of 150dBFS/Hz and a spurious free dynamic range of 75dBc to an analogue input of 1.8GHz. With this, designers can discern smaller signals in the presence of noise, clutter, blockers and interferers. The converter is designed for sampling wide bandwidth analogue signals enabling RF sampling architectures that reduce the number of analogue frequency down-conversion stages and their associated noise and cost contributions.

The converter is supplied in a high-reliability SnPb 196ball BGA.