Advanced wide band sampling solution for direct digitization of the K-band – extending the boundaries of RF possibility

In a world of exploding digital content, growing numbers of Internet users and connected IoT devices, there’s an insatiable need for ever expanding communication network capacity. To that end, Teledyne e2v, in its ongoing push to explore the boundaries of digital microwave sampling has recently demonstrated an experimental set-up. It provides direct digital down conversion from the K-band . This continues work previously introduced at the ESA MTT workshop earlier this year that proposed direct digital K-band frequency synthesis using the EV12DS480 broadband DAC; work that was further documented in a technical paper1 and recent webinar2.