Sarsen Christmas Opening Hours 2020

The Sarsen Technology offices will be closed for a well deserved break over the festive period.

If there is anything we can help you with before the end of the year please let us know. 

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our customers and suppliers a very merry and safe Christmas and New Year.

Thursday 24th December - Closed
Friday 25th December - Closed
Monday 28th December - Closed
Tuesday 29th December - Closed
Wednesday 30th December - Closed
Thursday 31st December - Closed
Friday 1st January 2020 - Closed
Monday 4th January - Open as normal

Technical support will be provided directly by our manufacturers.

Our Out of Hours Support infomation can be found here. 

Software Defined Radio Solutions - UK Supplier

 

Of all the technology discussions we’ve had with customers this year, some of the most interesting have been about cutting-edge software defined radios (SDRs).

In simple terms, an SDR is a communication system which is made up of radio components including filters, detection circuits and mixers, with all the modulation and demodulation of signals processed by a software package. Conventional radio systems are composed mostly of hardware, and as such cannot easily be re-configured. The SDR set up provides increased flexibility and capabilities over a traditional radio communication system.

The SDRs we have been talking about include several “hard” or fixed components including an Antenna, front-end RF Hardware, and an ADC or DAC. General purpose processors usually lack the I/O bandwidth and processing capabilities necessary for implementing anything other than basic SDRs, so we support a range of FPGA and RFSoC technology which provides both the I/O bandwidth necessary and the processing capabilities needed for implementing complex SDRs, and they can do so at multi-GHz sampling rates and GHz-range bandwidths.

COTS FMC + Mezzanine card with Xilinx Zynq RFSoC

 

 

 

Annapolis Micro Systems provides both the SDR hardware and firmware development tools necessary for creating SDR solutions quickly and easily. Their WILDSTAR™ baseboards provide FPGA processing capabilities fed directly from a large suite of I/O Mezzanine Cards, including RFSoC ADCs that provide industry-leading performance. For SDR development, their patented CoreFire Next™ and Open Project Builder™ Design Suites provide all the functionality needed for fast and dependable FPGA development.

 

Sources: 

Annapolis - SW Defined Radio

Wikipedia - Software-defined Radio