Second Order Effects

This evaluation board tests a custom frequency synthesizer covering the frequencies from 70-120GHz, developed by JPL's own Sub-Millimeter Wave Advanced Technology group. This synthesizer is targeted at applications for radioastronomy, Earth and Planetary science.

For JPL, we provided a service that expedited the turn-time, cutting the leadtime to a quarter of what JPL expected internally. We updated their evaluation board's design to circumvent part obsolescence and shortages, developed a custom RFIC footprint for eventual wirebonding, managed the hardware through fabrication and assembly, performed electrical verification, and delivered hardware to support R&D testing for prospective flight-qualified hardware. To learn more about this project and others, visit soeffects.com.

Second Order Effects designed, simulated, prototyped, and completed a production run of 24 microwave downconverter modules. Designed for satellite-to-ground communication, these modules filter and mix differing input and output signals and were specially made to focus on reducing image noise.

Read more about the project by checking out our case study at soeffects.com