HARDWARE SOLUTIONS

Hardware designs are at the core of what we do. We deliver cutting-edge solutions that work.

Since 2003, CAES APD has designed high-performance, complex solutions for commercial, industrial and military customers – land, sea, air and space. Our designs consist of a wide range of technology spanning from low-Cost, Size, Weight and Power (C-SWaP) embedded platforms to 36-layer, blind-via, via-in-pad, micro-via, 600W Software Defined Radios (SDRs) in 6 months to enable titans of industry to capture new market space. No matter what your hardware requirements are, APD can provide custom solutions.

CUTTING-EDGE CAPABILITES

Digital, Analog & Mixed Signal Designs
- RF-System in Package (RF-SiP) & Discrete Components
- Analog-to-digital & Digital-to-analog Conversion Hardware & Software
Technology Agnostic
- X86, FPGAs, GPUs, ARM, PPC & More!
Bleeding-Edge Components & Technology
Custom & Standard Form Factors
High Speed I/O
- PCIe Gen 4, 100GbE, SerDes, LVDS, Etc.
Analog & RF Up To 340 GHz
Rapid Development
- 38-layers, 10K Component Designs
Advanced Design Techniques
- Blind-via, Via-in-pad, Micro-via
Power & Thermal Solutions > 600 W
Ruggedized & High Reliability
Industrial – Low-Cost / Design For Manufacturing
Space Design – Radiation Tolerant / Redundancy
Cyber & Anti-tamper

Peregrine II - Software Defined Digital Receiver / Exciter (SD-DREX)

3DR Lightning II - 8-ch, 14-bit 3 GSPS Analog-to-Digital Converter

Edge 2 -Warp II - Dual Intel Stratix 10 PCIe Card STM32 IoT Processor Module

Warp II - Dual Stratix 10 eXtreme High Performance Compute Node

PCB DESIGN SOLUTIONS

Turn-key Solutions – Hardware, Software, Manufacturing & Integration
System & Board Level Architecture Specification
Component Selection, Production Cost Analysis & Schedule
Part Entry / Symbol Creation
Schematic Drawing / Capture
Power & Timing Analysis
Netlist, BOM & Artwork Generation
Tools:
- Altium
- Hyperlinx
- AWR AXIEM & Microwave Office
- CST
- SiWave – Power Analysis

SUB-/SYSTEMS

SPS-49 RADAR

Prime Integrator for Tech. Refresh
UHF-band / 250nmi Range
Reducing Multiple Racks to Single DREX+
RIF & OTA Funding

SKYLINE - Air-to-air Collision Avoidance Radar

Skyline is an advanced airborne, pulsed-Doppler radar
C-Band AESA
Modular Design
Majority of radar processing in 3 FPGAs Programmed in Simulink
Air to Air & Ground to Air Detection

PRODUCTS

CAES APD offers a wide array of products – view the overview for a complete list!