ASIC Design for Optical Communications and Microwave Photonics

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1 ASIC Design for Optica Communications and Microwave Photonics December 2016 Copyright SAPHYRION Sag

2 Who We Are Who is Saphyrion Swiss privatey owned company, ocated near Lugano (TI). European eader in space-quaified RF ASICs. Core team: skied professionas from Swiss Federa Institutes of Technoogy (ETHZ, EPFL) and Swiss Universities of Appied Sciences. Engineering company, focused on semiconductors, board-eve designs and software deveopment. Fabess approach- a manufacturing is outsourced Target markets Navigation & teecommunication domains. Space market. High-end ground market. Combine deveopment of own products with direct contract designs and research projects. Copyright SAPHYRION Sag 1

3 Core Competencies Microwave Photonics Copyright SAPHYRION Sag 2

4 Saphyrion Products and Industry Mandates Products: SY1007, SY1017C GNSS ASICs for space-borne appications. Space quaified (ESCC-9000), ITAR-free. RD1027 GNSS RF front-end evauation modue designed around the SY1007, SY1017. SM1027u GNSS RF front-end modue (chip on board). Library of rad-hard I/O and RF pads and digita standards ces for ASIC design. GDAS-1 Lab. instrument: GNSS RF data ogger for signa study and GNSS receivers. GDAS-2 Second generation GNSS Data Acquisition System. Copyright SAPHYRION Sag 3

5 Saphyrion Products and Industry Mandates Industry mandates: 2-channe ASIC (GNSS + GLONASS) RF GNSS frontend for ground appications, designed and fuy engineered for a Russian customer. Library of rad-hard I/O and RF pads and digita standards ces for ASIC design. Muti-frequency RF subsystems for next generation space-borne GNSS receiver (AIRBUS Defence & Space). Radiation toerant Radio ASIC front-end for Radiometers appication. Design and deveopment of space-borne modues. Consutancy mandates on RF and mixed mode designs. Copyright SAPHYRION Sag 4

6 Photonics in space: a new chaenge for ASICs The pecuiar nature of many components used in optica communication system requires the impementation of features not common in RF design, with the additiona need for rad-hard operation: OFDM signa 2 Linearization of MZ moduator, bias contro 2 RF spectrum Dn=60GHz Dua-frequency Injection aser 1 2 WDM 1 Mach-Zehnder Moduator (narrowband) Upper sideband Lower sideband Dn=60GHz Couper 1 2 RF AMP Broadband (80GHz) photodiode 60 GHz f Injection aser contro Simpified scheme of very ow-noise RF signa generation by microwave photonics techniques. Grouping of new functionaities in custom ASICs are shown in yeow bocks 5

7 SAPHYRION objectives: Thanks to its expertise in photonics, to become the reference source of a whoynew generation of RF/mixed signa ASICs, aowing remarkabe simpification of the design of sophisticated, rad-hard optica moduation and demoduation groups. To pioneer the appication of microwave photonics techniques to S,X, and Ka bands, in order to increase the tota capacity of a sateite teecommunication ink To ead the deveopment of extremey rad-hard ASIC design for deep space missions expoiting optica teecommunications. Deep space optica communications boards sha stand a harsh radiation environment (from the movie Passengers ) Copyright SAPHYRION Sag 6

8 SAPHYRION woud wecome: Coaborations in upcoming ESA ITTs Joint participation to cas in H2020 and other EU programs focused on appication of photonics in space Custom deveopment of proprietary ASICs for use in spaceborne optica communication systems Cooperation in the take-off of microwave photonics appications in space Copyright SAPHYRION Sag 7

9 Think INNOVATION! Contact Company website : For more information : For support: contact@saphyrion.ch support@saphyrion.ch