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2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting

DOI: 10.1109/apusncursinrsm.2017.8072148

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A 60-Channels ADC Board for Space Borne DBF-SAR Applications

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Abstract

A 60-Channels ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) board for space borne Digital Beam Forming (DBF) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications is described. The purpose of the board is to digitize analog signals detected by a dual band SAR receiving array operating at X and Ka band. It contains 48 high speed ADCs, which sample synchronously the incoming data of the antenna front end at Ka band. Other 12 ADCs are used to sample the coming data from the X band antennas. The board is composed by an analog section, a digital section and a clock distribution network used to synchronize the ADCs. Output digital signals from the board are routed to digital boards were are processed in the Digital Beamforming Network (DBFN).