Hypres Inc. has delivered two Digital-RF (TM) receiver systems to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research. The systems will serve as test beds to evaluate Digital-RF technology for wireless communications applications.
According to a Hypres press release, each Digital-RF receiver system features a pre-characterized low-pass single-chip digital-RF receiver, a cryocooler with two temperature stages and appropriate cryopackaging, temperature controller, interface amplifiers, dc bias current source, FPGA-based data acquisition hardware, data acquisition software and graphical user interface, and operating manual.
“Hypres’ Digital-RF technology is directly relevant to the Department of Defense’s goal of creating architecture for seamless military communications,” said Deborah Van Vechten, PhD, technical representative at ONR. “The two test bed receiver systems the ONR accepted from Hypres will help support the continued prototyping of all-digital receivers for specific defense applications and operating parameters, such as those associated with Signals Intelligence, Communications, and Command and Control.”
