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Modular satellite transceiver

  • US 8,140,005 B2
  • Filed: 07/17/2008
  • Issued: 03/20/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A modular satellite transceiver comprising:

  • an RF module operating in a first band, the RF module including one or more antennas, an RF front end module, a band converter, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital-to-analog converter; and

    a back end module that includes a digital processing module;

    wherein the RF module is removably coupled with the back end module such that the RF module may be replaced with another RF module operating in a second band different from the first band;

    wherein during transmission the back end module is configured to provide at least one digital representation of a modulated analog transmit signal to the RF module for digital-to-analog conversion and transmission; and

    wherein during reception the RF module is configured to analog-to-digital convert at least one analog receive signal into at least one digital representation of a modulated analog receive signal, and provide the at least one digital representation of the modulated analog receive signal to the back end module for demodulation.

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