Patent ID: 9461732
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04B

Claim Text:
1. An integrated analog to digital converting and digital to analog converting (ADDA) RF transceiver for satellite applications, configured to replace conventional analog RF down and up conversion circuitry, comprising: a plurality of radiation tolerant high speed analog to digital conversion (ADC) units, each configured to take in an RF signal and output a sampled digital signal; a plurality of radiation tolerant high speed digital to analog conversion (DAC) units, each configured to take in a sampled digital signal and output an RF signal; a plurality of radiation tolerant digital inputs; a plurality of radiation tolerant digital outputs; a plurality of radiation tolerant digital signal processing (DSP) cores, each capable of processing data from one high speed ADC unit and outputting the processed data on one or more digital outputs; and a plurality of radiation tolerant digital signal processing (DSP) cores, each capable of processing data from a digital input and outputting the processed data to one DAC unit.