NanoCom SDR MK3

GomSpace’s flight proven NanoCom SDR MK3 is a uniquely modular and compact high performance SDR platform, built to support custom RF applications. Featuring a powerful Zynq®7030/45 System on a Chip (SoC) at its core, its small form factor can incorporate up to three NanoCom TR600 MK3 Transceivers, each offering 2xRX and 2xTX Channels, making it a truly flexible, versatile, and cost-effective solution. 
 
This flexibility allows a very wide range of custom mission applications ranging from SIGINT/Spectrum Monitoring and Remote Sensing to custom communication solutions:   

• High data rate intensive applications such as SIGINT/Spectrum Monitoring, 
• Custom broadband for downloads such as DVBS2
• Multiband / Multi rate communications
• Broad band download + Telemetry and Telecommand (TMTC) / Telemetry, Tracking and Control (TT&C) 
• Narrowband IoT and tracking solutions such as AIS and ADS-B

 
With hardware prepared for Store and Forward, NanoCom SDR MK3 is also a perfect choice for custom intersatellite link / crosslink solutions for constellations or Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) data relay applications. 
 
NanoCom SDR MK3 comes with a wealth of configurable I/O and is complemented by GomSpace’s wide portfolio of antenna solutions, to aid quick, efficient and flexible integration.   For rapid development of custom SDR applications, GomSpace provides a comprehensive development kit.

Key Features

Performance:

• SoC Xilinx Zynq 7030/7045 Programmable SoC.
  • Dual ARM Cortex A9 MPCore, clocked up to 800 MHz
  • Powerful FPGA module – 125K / 350K logic cells
• Memory: 1024MB DDR3 (512MB with ECC enabled) RAM, 256 MB NOR flash
• Storage: 70GB eMMC (pSLC) and 233GB eMMC (MLC) with SEU bit flip detection
• Mechanical dimensions:  95 mm x 95 mm x 31.5 mm (with 3 x TR600)
• Mass: 240g
• Radiation: 20 kRad TID

Key Baseband Interfaces:

• SpaceWire: x3, data link/network layer
• USB: x1, host/device
• Fully Configurable FPGA I/O: 11 x LVDS pairs, 10 x I/O
• Conditionally Configurable FPGA I/O:  12 x LVDS pairs (or Spacewire), 8 x I/O (or RS-485)
• Conditionally Configurable ARM I/O:  6 x I/O (or eMMC#2)
• Others: CAN/SPI/RS422/RS485/PPS

Key RF Interfaces / Specification:

• Transceiver support: Up to 3 x NanoCom TR600 MK3 reconfigurable transceivers
• Transceiver I/O:  Each TR600 transceiver - 2RX and 2TX transceiver RF Inputs/Outputs
• Transceiver connectors:  SMPM RF connectors and Picoblade connector for Front End control
• Frequency Band:  70 MHz to 6 GHz
• Tunable Channel bandwidth:  200 KHz to 56 MHz
• Resolution: 12-bit DACs and ADCs

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