Scientists from the Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) have created new silicon integrated circuits for use in household microwave receivers and transmitters with active phased array antennas (AFAR). The circuits will be used in radar and communication systems, helping to reduce power consumption and make production more economical, the university said.
By this time, similar devices in Russia were produced only on the basis of less effective gallium nitride technologies. According to TUSUR representatives, new silicon-based integrated circuits are now smaller, more reliable and cheaper to produce. Currently, experimental samples of a digitally controlled attenuator and a low-noise amplifier, which are part of the transceiver, have already been prepared.
The development of these circuits opens the possibility of integrating them with other microwave devices on a single silicon chip, making it possible to create highly integrated radio transmission systems. Director of the TUSUR Research Institute of Microelectronic Systems, Leonid Babak, emphasized that the introduction of these circuits to Russian enterprises will help reduce the costs and size of radio equipment. In the future, it is planned to organize mass production of new circuits at the Mikron JSC enterprise, which is interested in using these technologies in the radio-electronics industry.
Source: Ferra
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