Rakon has launched the RVC1616S – a space qualified, hybrid Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). Based on proprietary thick film technology, the design uses low noise bipolar transistors and hyber abrupt varactor diodes. The technology advances phase noise performance and provides high reliability and improved thermal management.
The RVC1616S is 100 kRad (Si) radiation-hardened and hermetically sealed, to operate in the harsh environment of space. It is a 16-pin flat pack device in a 16 x 16 x 4.3 mm package size and is available with the option of straight or gull-winged formed leads. Its thick-film optimises the RVC1616S’s Size, Weight and Power (SWaP). Output frequencies are available from 900 MHz to 1.5 GHz.
Key Features
- Based on thick-film technology using bipolar transistors and hyberabrupt silicon varactor diodes
- Excellent phase noise and an extended tuning voltage range available
- Phase noise @100 kHz offset -122 dBc/Hz
- Fixed frequency, narrow, and broadband solutions are available
- Broad band frequency tuning range
- Hermetically sealed packaging
- High reliability and qualified to ISRO-PAS-206 standard
Applications
- Space applications where low noise and fast tuning is required such as frequency synthesisers and digitally tuned oscillators
The RVC1616S offers satellite and space craft designers exceptional performance for geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and other deep space applications where radiation-hardened specifications are critical. With a broad product portfolio and comprehensive clocking domain expertise, Rakon can quickly customise, simulate and manufacture complex hybrid VCOs to operate within the most extreme environments.
View the RVC1616S datasheet or for more information, please email: sales@rakon.com
High Reliability Space Products – Rakon France (RF) and Rakon India (RI) Heritage
Rakon France (RF) has a long history of providing high-reliability products, with some customers having an association with Rakon for 30 years or more. Many government and commercial programmes use Rakon oscillators across the globe, in systems where high performance is required under the most demanding conditions.
Rakon India (RI) has been providing high reliability space-grade XOs, VCOs, VCXOs, TCXOs and OCXOs to the Indian market for more than ten years, and has helped to build India’s domestic heritage in space missions. Our VCXO products will meet your application’s most demanding stability and low phase noise requirements; featuring wide tuning bandwidth up to an octave. RI has in-house assembly, testing, screening and qualification testing capability for oscillators and in accordance with a wide variety of classes and levels required by aerospace agencies
About Rakon:
Rakon is a technological leader in the frequency control industry with a 53-year heritage. The company designs and manufactures world-leading frequency control and timing solutions, enabling connectivity for a wide range of applications. Its core markets are telecommunications, global positioning and space & defence. Rakon has three manufacturing plants and six research and development centers. Customer support personnel are located in 16 offices world-wide. Rakon is proud of its New Zealand heritage; it was founded in Auckland in 1967. It is a public company listed on the New Zealand stock exchange, ticker code RAK.
www.rakon.com
Product Enquiries:
Manohara Kadur (Sales/Business Development Manager)
Email: RIsales@rakon.com
