PCIe RF Digitizer and Tuner
The RFx is a multichannel RF tuner and digitizer on a low-profile, low-SWaP PCIe 3.0
board. It has two RF analog inputs with multiple digital tuners per RF input. Each RF
tuner provides a 125 MHz complex baseband signal, downconverted from a 0.4–6.0
GHz signal. The baseband signal is digitized by a 14- or 16-bit ADC and processed by a
Xilinx Kintex 7 FPGA (options available) which implements automatic gain control
(AGC), DC removal, adaptive I/Q balancing, and a bank of digital tuners. Complex data
from the digital tuners can be streamed directly or packetized in VITA-49 Radio
Transport (VRT) format for downstream processing. Local oscillators and sample
clocks are locked to a 10 MHz reference (internal or external).
Software support includes a SoapySDR driver, GNURadio support and GRC examples, as well as C/C++ and Python example applications for easy integration with third-party application or existing systems.
Pairs seamlessly with EDT’s Edgepoint AI for an AI/ML enabled spectrum awareness capability.
