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Product category: Intellectual Property Cores
News Release from: RF Engines | Subject: SpectraChip IF
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 08 September 2004

Digital solution for spectrum analyser
filtering

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SpectraChip IF is a digital replacement for analogue intermediate frequency (IF) filtering used in current spectrum analysers, and is supplied as an IP core for embedding on low cost FPGA devices.

SpectraChip IF is a digital replacement for analogue intermediate frequency (IF) filtering used in current spectrum analysers, and is supplied as an IP core for embedding on low cost FPGA devices SpectraChip IF provides a digital implementation of all the standard features, such as resolution bandwidth filtering, video bandwidth filtering and conversion to log power

Updating spectrum analyser designs to replace traditional analogue components with modern digital techniques helps to make the systems easier to manufacture, more reproducible and more reliable.

The use of digital technology saves on the manufacturing alignment costs normally associated with analogue circuitry, and the guaranteed repeatability of the digital design reduces both the need for, and the costs of, ongoing calibration.

With the enhanced version of this first release core, new features also become possible.