WARP - Capture and Storage

The WARP Capture and Storage System can continuously digitize, store and re-create up to 6000 MHz of RF spectrum. The system is uniquely suited to capturing very broad segments of the RF spectrum for a wide variety of spectrum management, broadband system development and RF environment simulation. External RF converters are not necessary due to the high sample rates of the internal data converters. In a single recording session the WARP-6000 can provide 100% probability of intercept for all emissions from HF through portions of C-band frequencies.

Using an external broadband down-converter the system can continuously capture broad segments of spectrum up to Ka-band and beyond. When combined with the WARP SignalAnalyst workstation, the captured terabyte signal files can be rapidly offloaded for analysis or archive purposes. X-COM's Spectro-X analysis software allows these same terabyte size files to be easily visualized and searched to find signals of interest for extraction and off-loading to other analysis tools. Signal files are stored in an open format and conversion programs are available that allow captured signals to be further processed by third party tools including MATLAB.

Features

• Continuous signal capture and playback up to 6000 MHz RF bandwidth
• Up to 44 minutes of continuous capture time at maximum sample rate (expandable)
• Recorded spectrum can be re-created using integral high speed digital to analog converter
• Up to 2000 markers can be added while data is being captured to mark the start of important events to facilitate post-acquisition analysis
• Simple user interface including manual start and stop, timed capture, and externally triggered captures
• Open format signal storage enables analysis by a wide variety of X-COM and third party analysis tools including MATLAB
• Start and stop capture or playback using hardware and software triggers

Applications

Specifications

Ordering

Accessories

Applications

• Electronic Warfare - Visualize and post process broad segments of the battlefield spectrum to design robust communications networks.
   
• Spectrum Management - Monitor spectrum usage and supplement the use of spectrum snapshots and tedious power surveys with long duration, time-stamped
   
• Radar - Capture wide bandwidths over extended time periods to analyze radar effectiveness. Create and test new waveforms to improve
   
• Survelliance - Determine usage patterns, intercept transmissions and correlate data files to receiver locations for military, drug interdiction and homeland security applications.

Specifications

Signal Capture Sample rates from 1.5 to 12 GS/s - RF/IF bandwidth up to 6 GHz
RF/IF Intput		BNC; 10 MHz external reference)
Reference In		(Front Panel) SMA (f) (one); 500 mV pk-pk nominal; 270 mV minimum; 530 mV maximum; Used to replay recorded RF/IF signals
Reference Out		BNC; 10 MHz internal reference output
Control In/Out		Gigabit Ethernet; RJ145s
Trigger In		SMA (f) ; User programmable
Trigger Out		SMA (f) ; User programmable
Marker In		SMA (f) ; User programmable
Marker Out		SMA (f) ; User programmable
IRIG-B In		Analog SMA (f); IRIG B122 or B123 Digital - DB15; IRIG-B 00X
External Clock In		SMA (f) ; Used to synchronize system internal clock with other systems
Internal Clock Out		SMA (f) ; Used to synchronize other systems with system internal clock
Memory Interface		Mini SAS; Used to link to external Datapacks. Additional datapacks can be daisy-chained from primary pack Recording Duration Per Datapack (Minutes) Capture BW 12 TB 24 TB 32 TB   6000 MHz 17 33 44 3000 MHz 33 66 88 1500 MHz 66 132 176
Signal Playback
RF/IF Output		(Front Panel) SMA (f) (one); 500 mV pk-pk nominal; 270 mV minimum; 530 mV maximum; Used to replay recorded RF/IF signals
Trigger In		SMA (f) ; User programmable
Trigger Out		SMA (f) ; User programmable
Control		Remote Windows XP or Windows 7 OS PC with minimum of 50 Mbytes free disk space, 1GByte RAM, running X-COM's WARP Drive controller software. Interconnect between PC via Gigabit Ethernet, RJ-45 cable.
Environmental
Temperature		Operating:  +5 to +35 degrees Celsius Storage:  -20 to +70 degrees Celsius
Humidity		Operating:  5% to 95% non-condensing relative humidity Non-operating:  5% to 95% non-condensing relative humidity.
Effective Altitude		(relative to sea level) Operating:  –200 to +10,000 feet (–60.96 to +3,048 meters) Non-operating  –200 to +40,000 feet (–60.96 to +12,210 meters)

Ordering

WARP-6000		Wideband Capture, Storage and Playback System 6 GHz of Acquisition bandwidth
WARP-3000		Wideband Capture, Storage and Playback System 3 GHz of Acquisition bandwidth
WARP-1500		Wideband Capture, Storage and Playback System 1.5 GHz of Acquisition bandwidth
WARP-OPT-12TB		SSD data pack for WARP system, 12TB RAIDo
WARP-OPT-24TB		SSD data pack for WARP system, 24TB RAIDo
WARP-OPT-32TB		SSD data pack for WARP system, 32TB RAIDo

Accessories

SA-DAT-AN		SigAnalyst™ Data Analysis System. Quad-Core Workstation, 24GB RAM, 16TB HDD, Spectro-X, Spectro-A and RF Editor software packages
SPECTRO-X		Advanced Signal Analysis software. Rapidly search and visualize large data sets to locate and analyze hard to find signals
RF EDITOR		Signal Generation software. Filter, shift-in-frequency and resample individual files to build valuable signal libraries