IQC-2110 RF Capture and Storage

Applications

• Electronic Warfare - Visualize and post process broad segments of the battlefield spectrum to design robust communications networks.
   
• Wireless Communications - Capture, identify and play back waveforms or create new ones fundamental to the testing and development of satellite and terrestrial, voice, data and telemetry equipment and networks.
   
• Spectrum Management - Monitor spectrum usage and supplement the use of spectrum snapshots and tedious power surveys with long duration, geo-tagged, time-stamped spectral recordings.
   
• Radar - Capture wide bandwidths over extended time periods to analyze radar effectiveness. Create and test new waveforms to improve performance.


• Surveillance - Determine usage patterns, intercept transmissions and correlate data files to receiver locations for military, drug interdiction and homeland security applications.

Data Capture

• Capture Bandwidth - 110 MHz maximum, 10 KHz minimum, step size: 10 KHz, Set automatically by the Spectrum Analyzer via IQC2110 gigabit Ethernet equipment bus.
   
• Available Capture Memory - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID5 Arrays providing 2, 4, 8 or 12 TB of storage using 3Gb/s, 2.5 inch, 146GB hard drives (separate enclosure from IQC2110).
   
• Recording Duration - See table below
   
• Sample Markers - Up to 510 makers per data capture file (in addition to files start and end). Markers are stored in the XIQ capture file header. Marker contains sample number, date and time (UTC). Markers created on TTL leading edge at TRIG IN inputs.
   
• Time Stamping - Sample time stamping (Marker Time): Provided by external IRIG-B 120, 121, 122, 123 receiver with millisecond resolution. Capture file Time Stamp: Capture file header contains Date, TOD (YYMMDD HHMMSS.SSS) and sample interval constant.
   
• Geo-Tagging - Provided by external GPS receiver (same receiver providing IRIG time information), stored in separate data file on Windows PC used for data analysis. GPS file data is time correlated to I&Q capture data via IRIG-B time stamp and sample interval in capture file header. ASCII flat file containing UTC time (YYMMDD HHMMSS.SS), Lat (decimal degrees, 4 decimal places), Long (decimal degrees, 3 decimal places) GPS above ground level altitude in feet.

Recording Duration Per Datapack

Signal Interfaces

• Digital I & Q, In/Out - 16 bit, LVDS, via 26 pin MDR for each I & Q stream. Can also accept interleaved I & Q samples via I input.
   
• External Triggers - 4, rear panel, 50 ohm, female BNC connectors
  0.8V trigger threshold voltage, minimum 5ms trigger pulse width, 20ms minimum pulse interval for consecutive trigger recognition
   
• Data Markers In/Out - (Trig 1 In, Trig 2 In, Trig 1 Out, Trig 2 Out), TTL voltage level, Input valid detected on rising edge.
   
• Time Stamps (IRIG IN) Input from GPS/IRIG-B Receiver - Female BNC, 3 Vpp, 50 ohms, IRiG-B 120, 121, 122, 123 amplitude modulated serial time code.
   
• External Reference Clock (REF IN, REF OUT) - 0 dBm, 50 ohm, female BNC
   
• Data Export - e-SATA, mini-SAS & LAN

Specifications

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