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© Copyright 2003-2017 SAPHYRION Sagl
December 2016
ASIC Design for Optical Communications
and Microwave Photonics
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Who We Are
Who is SaphyrionSwiss privately owned company, located near Lugano (TI).
European leader in space-qualified RF ASICs.
Core team: skilled professionals from Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETHZ, EPFL) and Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences.
Engineering company, focused on semiconductors, board-level designs and software development.
Fabless approach- all manufacturing is outsourced
Target marketsNavigation & telecommunication domains.
Space market.
High-end ground market.
Combine development of own products with direct contract designs and research projects.
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Core Competencies
MicrowavePhotonics
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Products:
• SY1007, SY1017C GNSS ASICs for space-borne applications. Space qualified (ESCC-9000), ITAR-free.
• RD1027 GNSS RF front-end evaluation module designed around the SY1007, SY1017.
• SM1027u GNSS RF front-end module (chip on board).
• Library of rad-hard I/O and RF pads and digital standards cells for ASIC design.
• GDAS-1 Lab. instrument: GNSS RF data logger for signal study and GNSS receivers.
• GDAS-2 Second generation GNSS Data Acquisition System.
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Saphyrion Products and Industry Mandates
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Industry mandates:
• 2-channel ASIC (GNSS + GLONASS) RF GNSS front-end for ground applications, designed and fully engineered for a Russian customer.
• Library of rad-hard I/O and RF pads and digital standards cells for ASIC design.
• Multi-frequency RF subsystems for next generation space-borne GNSS receiver (AIRBUS Defence & Space).
• Radiation tolerant Radio ASIC front-end for Radiometers application.
• Design and development of space-borne modules.
• Consultancy mandates on RF and mixed mode designs.
Saphyrion Products and Industry Mandates
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Photonics in space: a new challenge for ASICs
The peculiar nature of many components used in optical communication system requires the implementation of features not common in RF design, with the additional need for rad-hard operation:
Mach-ZehnderModulator
(narrowband)
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l2
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Dn=60GHz
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Uppersideband
Lowersideband
WDM
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l2
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Dn=60GHz
Broadband (80GHz)photodiode
60 GHz f
RFAMP
RF spectrum
OFDM signal
Linearization of MZ modulator, bias
control
CouplerDual-frequency
Injectionlaser
Injection lasercontrol
Simplified scheme of very low-noise RF signal generation by microwave photonics techniques. Grouping of new functionalities in custom ASICs are shown in yellow blocks
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SAPHYRION objectives:
• Thanks to its expertise in photonics, to become the reference source of a wholly-new generation of RF/mixed signal ASICs, allowing remarkable simplification of the design of sophisticated, rad-hard optical modulation and demodulation groups.
• To pioneer the application of microwave photonics techniques to S,X, and Ka bands, in order to increase the total capacity of a satellite telecommunication link
• To lead the development of extremely rad-hard ASIC design for deep space missions exploiting optical telecommunications.
Deep space optical communications boards shall stand a harsh radiation environment
(from the movie “Passengers”)
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SAPHYRION would welcome:
• Collaborations in upcoming ESA ITTs
• Joint participation to calls in H2020 and other EU programs focused on application of photonics in space
• Custom development of proprietary ASICs for use in space-borne optical communication systems
• Cooperation in the take-off of microwave photonics applications in space
Think
INNOVATION !
Contact
Company website : www.saphyrion.ch
For more information : [email protected]
For support: [email protected]