Payload Electronics for Satellite, Airborne and Ground System RF Electronics

Modules, Units and Subsystems from 10 MHz thru UHF, L, S, C, X, Ku, Ka, Q and V Bands.

Lucix engineers are expert RF Circuit designers with highly specialized analysis tools to provide customers with rapid convergence to speed up their system-level solutions. Leading-edge component and system design capabilities include thin and thick-film MIC implementations incorporating MMIC and discrete devices utilizing chip-and-wire technology within hermetic hybrids. Satellite Payload RF Electronics.

Lucix qualified heritage Satellite / Space Hardware includes:

  • LNAs
  • Oscillators Assemblies (MLOs, MROs)
  • Beacons
  • Downconverters and Upconverters
  • Receivers
  • Power Monitors
  • Phase-Locked Dielectric Oscillators (PLDROs)
  • Central Power Supply Units (CPSUs)

State of the Art RF, Circuit, and System design modeling and analysis tools are utilized, allowing rapid design convergence for quick turn solutions. Some of these tools include:

  • CAD Tools
  • Solid Works 3D Solid Modeling
  • AutoCAD Or CAD / Cadence Allegro
  • Simulation & Analysis Tools
  • Solid Works Thermal and Structural FEA
  • NOVICE Radiation Analysis
  • Advanced Design System – ADS
  • Microwave Office
  • 3-D electromagnetic simulator (HFSS)
  • Internally Developed Analysis Tools
  • Converter / Amplifier Analysis Tool
  • Noise Figure, C/3IM, P1dB, IP3
  • Gain / Loss / Noise Figure / C/3IM
  • Conversion Spurious Products
  • AM/PM Transfer and Conversion
  • Phase Noise / Integrated Jitter
  • Filter Synthesis
  • Communications Link
  • Mass & Power

Detailed analyses are frequently required to assure system success. Lucix engineers are highly experienced at performing these analyses, and iterating designs to achieve specification compliance. Analyses include:

  • Worst Case Circuit (WCCA)
  • Thermal
  • Parts Stress and Derating
  • Reliability / MTBF
  • Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality (FMECA)
  • Single Event Effects
  • Radiation / Total Dose
  • Internal Electrostatic Discharge Analysis
  • Electrostatic Discharge Input / Output Analysis
  • Mass Properties
  • Mechanical Stress
  • Volatile Condensable Material Mass (Out-gassing)

Manufacturing and Testing

Lucix State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facilities are AS 9100:2020 and ISO 9001:2015 certified and compatible with producing hardware consistent with today’s stringent Space and Military quality requirements.