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Problem Statement
Today's modern radars must operate in an RF environment that is increasingly congested and can include both deliberate jamming and unintentional degradation from a myriad of sources. Modern systems incorporate frequency agility, pulse compression, phased array designs, and many other complex RF characteristics. To ensure continued effectiveness, even in the most challenging of environments, it is critical that easy to use tools are available to create new waveforms for testing and to generate noise and other signals for the purposes of testing robustness and performance. What is needed is a means to generate and test even the most complex of waveforms to speed development timelines. In addition, the capability is needed to be able to capture and record large segments of the RF spectrum for long periods of time so that radar signals can be recorded for future analysis. When testing jamming systems in the chamber, a means is frequently needed to capture the entire radar/jammer interaction to support analysis and verify designs.
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X-COM Systems Solutions for Radar Applications
The X-COM Systems IQC2110 long duration continuous RF recording and playback system can turn your high performance Tektronix, Agilent or Rohde and Schwarz Signal Analyzer into a powerful, high dynamic range, high fidelity RF signal recorder and radar development support tool.
In an RF Capture and Playback System, the desire is to record a radar or interaction between a radar and potential jammer. The Signal Analyzer is used to select the segment of the RF spectrum to be recorded, which can be anywhere within the tuning range of the signal analyzer (options are currently available up to 40 GHz) with an instantaneous RF bandwidth up to 40 or 110 MHz depending on the signal analyzer used. When used for this purpose, the signal analyzer's other functions, such as complex triggering or real time signal analysis are not affected.
The X-COM Systems, IQC2110 RF Signal Recorder can be used to continuously capture high dynamic range 16 bit I and Q RF signal representations. Captured signals can be replayed entirely or in segments using an X-COM CPG2110 and external Vector Signal Generator (VSG) or the integrated X-COM 4CH-VSG-2000. When evaluating alternative radar waveforms the X-COM SigAnalyst workstation and RF Editor software tools support creation of even the most complex waveform.
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