JARIET Technologies
JARIET Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in high performance data converter transceivers, announced an expansion of its flagship ELECTRA-MA product with a much broader ELECTRA family of products, building upon success in multi-antenna electronic warfare and prototyping for 6G cellular communication. The expanded product portfolio is well positioned to address the needs of RADAR, satellite communications, test equipment and quantum computing with optimized offerings from 100MHz to 36GHz and increased port density. The ELECTRA platform is making the next generation possible with application-optimized offerings by providing direct RF-sampling from VHF to Ka-band at ADC/DAC sample rates up to 64GSPS.
The ELECTRA architecture, already well established in the aerospace and defense market, is now being offered as a family of commercially available ICs to enable broader customer access to JARIET’s leadership technology in a stand-alone package with an industry standard SERDES data interface. The common architecture and software environment used across the entire ELECTRA family reduces customer development cost and enables faster time to market while addressing multi-function and multi-domain application spaces. The 36GHz bandwidth enables SDR (software-defined radio) at double the frequency previously possible and with signal instantaneous bandwidth (IBW) up to 6.4GHz wide per converter. ELECTRA more than triples the clock rate of the nearest competitor’s ADC, and more than doubles the nearest DAC. The 10-bit 64GSPS ADCs deliver 10dB better noise spectral density (NSD) and 17dB better noise figure (NF) at 9.5GHz than the best 14-bit ADCs.
ELECTRA family product details:
2T2R
- ELECTRA-MA: 64 GSPS, 36 GHz (Ka-band), max 6.4 GHz IBW
- ELECTRA-MK: 58 GSPS, 22 GHz (K-band), max 2.9 GHz IBW
- ELECTRA-MX: 51.2 GSPS, 12 GHz (X-band), max 1.28 GHz IBW
- 25-mm x 25-mm BGA package
4T4R
- ELECTRA-QA: 64GSPS, 36GHz (Ka-band), max 6.4GHz IBW
- ELECTRA-QK: 58GSPS, 22GHz (K-band), max 2.9GHz IBW
- ELECTRA-QX: 51.2GSPS, 12GHz (X-band), max 1.28GHz IBW
- 27mm x 32mm BGA package
- RF-sampling ADCs/DACs
- Coarse and fine DUCs/DDCs
- Ultra low-jitter internal clock generation on each transmit/receive pair
- Multi-chip synchronization
- 16 lane 30Gbps JESD204C SERDES transceivers
- Low power 12nm CMOS process, wafer FAB in the United States
Technology similar to ELECTRA is also available co-packaged with popular FPGAs, as an IP block for integration into your own ASIC and in die form.