SY1017A

AD/DA-Converter and PLL

Description

The SY1017A is a radiation hardened AD/DA-converter and interface ASIC for GNSS receivers aimed at the professional and space markets. It is synergistically designed to operate together with the SY1007A GNSS RF front-end and its purpose is to interface it to a GNSS base-band  processor. It is an improved version of the legacy SY1017C device that offers 100MHz sampling rate, a PLL phase noise improvement of about 20dB, as well as master/slave operation. This device is designed in a 0.35μm SiGe process.

Like its predecessor, the SY1017A integrates two flash AD-converters, a low speed DA-converter, a sampling clock PLL frequency synthesizer and a configuration register accessible via a serial interface.

Features

  • Interface IC between SY1007A and a GNSS baseband processor.
  • Direct interface to ESA AGGA-4 processor.
  • Pin-to-pin compatible upgrade for the SY1017C.
  • Signal bandwidth up to 300MHz, fs 100MHz.
  • Compact, low bill-of-materials, small PCB area.
  • Low voltage operation, low power consumption.
  • Compact 6mmx 6mm ceramic-metal and plastic BGA package variants.

Signals

  • All GNSS signals.

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These document revisions replace any previous releases.

IMPORTANT WARNING! Users of the previous SY1017C chip are kindly requested to download and read with attention the following Application Brief AB-01, in which few additional precautions needed to adapt the old SY1017C design to the use of the new chip SY1017A are outlined.