The SX-430 from Pacific Defense is a Software-Defined Radio (SDR) Transceiver that operates from 5 MHz to 18 GHz. This transceiver’s design is aligned with SOSA and CMOSS technical standards and is equipped with Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC (C2 and DSP), memories (12 GB DDR4, EPROM, flash), two transmitters and receivers. It also consists of data converters (16-bit ADC/DAC), FPGAs, switches, power management, and control interfaces. This SDR has an instantaneous bandwidth of 160 MHz (narrow bandwidths achievable with digital processing). It delivers an output power of 0 dBm and has a power adjustment range of 30 dB with a power step size of 1 dB.
The SX-430 includes a 40 GbE ML2B real-time bus and delivers a data rate of up to 40 Gbps. This transceiver provides 40GBase-KR4, 1000Base-X, and PCIe Gen3 backplane support with a comprehensive embedded development kit (EDK) and software development kit (SDK) for control using built-in USB interfaces. It also supports multi-card phase coherency for geolocation and beamforming. This transceiver requires a DC supply of 12 V and 3.3 V (auxiliary) and consumes 95 W of power. It is available in a 3U OpenVPX enclosure and is ideal for cyber, EW, SIGINT, and communications applications.
