Achieving New Performance Benchmarks for Instrumentation and Defense Applications

Analog Devices announced the launch of the AD9213, a new RF analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that delivers industry-leading speed and bandwidth.

The AD9213 can convert RF signals up to 7 GHz into digital signals, with superior parametric performance, Nyquist bandwidth, and RF sampling performance at higher analog input frequencies compared to traditional RF ADCs.

The AD9213 enables higher system integration for next-generation software-defined systems in the aerospace and defense, instrumentation, and communications markets, while reducing cost, power consumption, size, and weight. Furthermore, its fast sampling rate and integrated post-processing capabilities enable further performance gains in narrowband applications.

The AD9213 provides aerospace and defense customers with greater flexibility, the ability to process a wider spectral section for electronic surveillance and countermeasure applications, and the ability to support higher resolution and longer detection ranges in RADAR designs.

The new products enable electronic test and measurement manufacturers (ETM) to achieve exceptional performance and product differentiation in time-domain applications such as digital oscilloscopes and spectrometers/chemical analyzers. By supporting a wider Nyquist bandwidth, satellite communications customers can leverage the new product to achieve higher bandwidth end products. Furthermore, the wide input bandwidth and fast sampling rate enable new wideband digital pre-distortion (DPD) architectures in wireless communications applications.