Archive for May, 2007

Links

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

ASTRONASTRON
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy

Connect Care Connect System
ATH is applying capabilities to the healthcare sector

DysiDySI
DySI is een spin-off bedrijf vanuit het LOFAR project

De GrootDe Groot
Partner for NOFIQ

esaESA
European Space Agency

filitronFILITRON
Long range RFID solutions & production in the logistic chain.

idlIDL sensing
Together with Astron, ATH cooperates with IDL.

NOFIQ NOFIQ systems BV

ProvincieProvincie Drenthe

sfaSFA
Safety For All - Partner for NOFIQ

SPIRIDSPIRID
Partner for NOFIQ

variass Variass.bv
As ATH is closely involved in development towards commercializing industrial products, it has a close relationship with Variass.bv

OudeOude Avenhuis & Van Dijk B.V.

Products

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

FAST TRANSIENT BUFFER BOARD

printboard
Functionality
- High speed digital data capture
- Flexible data rates: 8 channels of 16 bit at 400Msamples/sup to 2048 channels at 1.56Msamples/s
- Flexible online event detection in firmware
- Both external triggering and smart online datadependent triggering
- Flexible online (firmware) processing possibilities
- Ethernet connection for offline processingof 8 Gbytestored data (upgradableto 64 Gbyte)
- Possibility to allocate all memory to < 8 channelsBlock

Read more (PDF)

REMOTE SIGNAL PROCESSING BOARD

printboard
Functionality
- Digital beamforming of eight 12 bit channels at a data rate of 200 Msamples/s
- Total processing bandwidth for each channel: 100 MHz
- Possibility to stack multiple boards, yielding a phased array of up to 96 input channels
- Flexible online (firmware) processing possibilities
- Eight 2.5 Gbps SERDES connections for transfer of beamformed data
- Processing is done in 200 kHz subbands
- Single and dual polarization options

Read more (PDF)

Projects

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Flat Antennas

planes
FUFA
A project with subsidized budget developing phased array principles for professional markets. We are involved in a development study on airplanes, professional shipping, leisure & transport
PCB

RFID

PBc
Provinciale Bibliotheekcentrale Drenthe - Advanced security system for libraries based on RFID.

nofiq

Fire sensors

NOFIQ
NOFIQ, fire protection at the source.
+ more
wlan

Wireless antenna’s

WLAN
Licensing of WLAN antenna’s to third parties.
+ more

 

Regional Projects

IAP Drenthe
Innovatieve Acties Programma that AstroTec Holding B.V. carries out for the province drenthe and the European fund for regional development.

Projects in which the experience of ATH was most applied:

HBA
We contributed to the LOFAR development by supplying the High Band Antenna together with ASTRON.

Services

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Systemdesign and productdevelopment

From market requirements to ideas and functional specifications, demonstrators and prototypes

Technical feasibilty studies

Concept- and feasibility studies

Technical support

Consultancies from Specialists and facilitating project-execution through collaborations with knowledge institutes and centers of excellence outside ASTRON

Verification

Measurements, tests, calibrations and R&D facilities rent

Education

Knowledge dissemination through courses and relations to universities and other educational institutes.

Courses:

- RF cursus 5, 6 en 7 November
- Optica cursus (coming soon)

Licensing

Licenses on our patent portfolio and designs. The licences have been awarded so far to AROB for WLAN antennas.

Project based collaborations and Joint Ventures

ATH participates in NOFIQ and FILITRON

Final presentation of the FUFA project

Friday, May 11th, 2007

On April 26, ATH organized the final presentation of the FUFA project in Dwingeloo PDF