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The radiation hardened, 60 GHz, 50 Mbps satellite communications system was developed for BMDO. This system was extensively tested in above ground radiation simulators. Modulation of the 60 GHz carrier has been shown in excess of 1 Gbps.
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The PLD board is designed to fit in a Nicolet Micropro data acquisition system and provide GPS based timing for independent systems operating from remote wind turbines. The timing accuracy is microsecond accurate. This board contains an ALTERA PLD having 70,000 programmable gates, temperature sensors, relays for power control and dual UARTs.
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The PLD11 board contains over 1.1 Million programmable gates and can pump data through at over 38.4 Gbps. This board is currently being used by multiple programs at Sandia including encryption and compression of ATM cells. This Sandia board is the winner of the 1998 Veribest Superior Systems Award.
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The flexible optical interconnect board utilizes 64 element VCSEL and FET receiver arrays to achieve nearly 10 Gpbs communications between circuit boards. Unique pointing and tracking piezoelectric actuators are used to maintain the link.
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