Contract awarded for high performance

Providing high performance digital filter designs has won RF Engines (RFEL) a contract from Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO).

The designs, which are used in advanced receiver systems, claim to deliver high quality filtering of wideband signals in real-time.

RFEL will provide DSTO with two filter designs, each based on frequency domain filtering techniques using the polyphase DFT.

The first design will support a continuous sample rate of 200 MHz with 512 frequency domain weights and the second design will support sample rates over 150 MHz with 4096 weights. The filter shapes are fully reprogrammable, and can be changed while the filter is running without loss of data.

"We are delighted that DSTO have selected RF Engines' signal processing technology for this leading edge development," said John Summers, RF Engines' CEO. "It is a further example of our system design capabilities, and shows how we are able to provide rapid and cost-effective solutions to the most demanding signal processing challenges."