SANTA CLARA, Calif., - Intel has announced a new technology that enables customers to significantly reduce the size, weight, power and cost of systems used in radar, electronic defense, high-end commercial test equipment and 5G/6G communications markets.
This transformative technology integrates FPGAs and high-performance analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and digital-to-analog converters (DAC), a revolutionary step toward providing a single component to improve performance, reduce power consumption and shrink the physical size of circuitry.
With this announcement, Intel extends technology scaling from digital semiconductors into the realm of digital plus analog applications. In 5G and 6G applications the bandwidth attained with such high sample rates will directly correlate to high communication bandwidth to enable transporting the massive amount of data the world is now moving wirelessly.
This new FPGA technology, developed in part from research funded by the DARPA CHIPS program, will employ components made in the United States, which is attractive to military and government customers where domestic manufacturing is a priority.
Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company, was integral in co-defining critical requirements and use cases to enable Intel’s development of the new technology. The partnership between the leading chipmaker and the aerospace giant will result in mission-ready technology.
BAE Systems, a defense and aerospace company, also worked closely with Intel in the early-definition of use cases and workloads, and plans to incorporate the technology into designs moving forward. The new technology can be combined with FPGAs, structured ASICs and other computing chiplets to create a single, highly integrated package, which provides a unique advantage to BAE Systems and its customers.
Moving forward, Intel will continue to collaborate with military, but believes this technology also has the potential to revolutionize analog and digital systems for test and measurement, as well wireless developers.
