In various applications ranging from radar to smartphone testing
Provides improved accuracy with a smaller footprint

Analog Devices Korea (CEO Jaehoon Yang) announced the AD9164 DAC, which provides high-resolution radar images to military and civilian radar designers while actually reducing the number of solution components.

The newly released AD9164 DAC guarantees enhanced test speed and accuracy for designers of precision measurement equipment, such as smartphone testers, significantly shortening time-to-market while substantially reducing the complexity and size of the testers. Thanks to the AD9164 DAC, which provides a frequency range from audio to 6 GHz, the tester market has taken another step closer to becoming a general-purpose wireless test platform.


Using the AD9164 DAC reduces the number of solution components while also miniaturizing the size, enabling the latest radar solutions for element-level digital beamforming.

In addition, the AD9164 DAC has the same performance specifications as the previously released AD9162, and is also equipped with an on-chip direct digital synthesizer (DDS) that guarantees synchronous high-speed frequency hopping of less than 300ns at up to 32 different frequencies. Thanks to these specifications, the AD9164 can test anything from the AM broadcast band or Japanese FM band to the 5.8GHz UNII band.

The AD9164 incorporates 2x interpolators (FIR85), which enables configuration changes at lower data rates and allows for converter clocking, which reduces overall system power and eases filtering requirements. Additionally, the new DAC can be configured to recover RF carriers up to 7.5 GHz in the second and third Nyquist regions while maintaining excellent dynamic range in mix-mode operation.

In addition, a special remote evaluation tool released alongside the AD9164 allows designers to test the DAC's performance in a "test drive." This remote tool is available at http://labs.analog.com/ad916x.