Triton (Quad Apollo) Development Platform
The Quad-Apollo MxFE™ (mixed-signal front-end) X-band direct sampling digital beamforming platform is an advanced, every-element digital, direct RF-sampling solution that serves as a complete reference architecture for next-generation digital beamforming systems. Designed to highlight the capabilities of Analog Devices’ MxFE® technology, the platform integrates all critical subsystems—RF signal conditioning, precision clocking, multichip synchronization, and DC power management—into a unified, high performance environment that supports coherent, scalable signal processing across multiple channels.
The platform enables quick time-to-market development programs for: Phased-Array, RADAR, Electronic Warfare and SATCOM
The system is designed to mate with a VCU118 Evaluation Board from Xilinx®, featuring the Virtex™ UltraScale+™ XCVU9P-L2FLGA2104E FPGA, with provided reference software, HDL code, and MATLAB/Python system-level interfacing.
Triton Documentation Support
As a released platform, Triton has its own product page where the user guide, bring up guide and associated technical articles are hosted to assist users of the system. Below are the links:
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Triton Software Support
The Triton Quad Apollo has two HDL Images (Hardware Description Language) available for users. As outlined in the table below, both images are operating at 12.8 GHz Sample Clock and the only difference between the two configurations is the resulting usable instantaneous Bandwidth (iBW); 320 MHz vs. 640 MHz Below are the links to the two images and the user should reference the Bring Up Guide documentation for the steps to program the system.
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Triton System Platforms - Demo & Pilots
The System Platform team are here to support customers in the integration of this platform, whether that is as a standalone system or a sub-assembly in a larger system, we can help. To this end, we have generated the following pilot we believe you will find useful
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For questions or help with the Triton Development Platform, please visit:
https://ez.analog.com/adef-system-platforms/