Per Vices has introduced a wide-band software defined radio (SDR) offering up to sixteen independent Rx and Tx chains, with 1GHz rf bandwidth on each chain, up to 18GHz.

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Called Cyan, it is a direct conversion quadrature transceiver built around an Altera Stratix 10 FPGA with an on-chip quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 MPCore processor, “providing the highest instantaneous stare bandwidth of any SDR”, according to the company.

There is a 16bit 1Gsample/s DAC on each transmit chain and a 16bit 1Gsample/s ADC on each receive chain, with options to extend these to 3Gsample/s.

Clocking is stabilised by a 10ppb 10MHz OCXO, and data back-haul between the radio and other equipment is supported by four 40Gbit/s QSFP+ links.

Deterministic phase coherency and latency is claimed, with digital down and up conversion on the FPGA, and over 16GHz of RF bandwidth is available when using all 16 radio chains at maximum bandwidth.

“Cyan is what we believe to be the best SDR commercially available,” a spokeswoman for the company told Electronics Weekly. “We offer a range of SDRs, including Cyan. These are available as COTS base models, but can also be customised to meet our customer’s specific application needs.”

It includes web interface and UHD compatibility, comes in a 483 x 402 x 133mm 3U enclosure, and weighs 6.2kg.

Applications are expected in radar, satellites, ground stations, low latency links, test and measurement.

Headquartered in Toronto Canada, Per Vices develops and deploys software defined radio platforms for defence, civil, aerospace, medical, telecommunications, broadcasting and wireless management.