RF Waveform Software

December 1, 2012

X-COM Systems, LLC, a subsidiary of Bird Technologies (Reston, VA), has introduced Version 3.0 of its RF Editor Graphical RF Editor software for modifying and building custom RF signal waveform files for use in defense, commercial, and system verification applications. The software is used for modifying captured radar, jammer, and communications signals to create simulated threat scenarios; in electronic warfare and radar systems; evaluating satellite and terrestrial wireless voice and data equipment; and for civilian and military spectrum monitoring.

The software runs on a Windows 7 PC and uses .xiq and .tiq (I&Q) files captured by X-COM’s IQC-2110 RF Capture and Storage System, spectrum and signal analyzers, or waveform segments created in MATLAB and other third-party scientific programming languages. It lets the user make many types of modifications to a spectrum file and create new ones by moving segments or broader “slices” of spectrum to any location along ten parallel time domain tracks. Waveforms can also be located in time, repeated, or stretched in duration. Frequency domain editing allows recorded waveforms to be filtered, interpolated, decimated, and shifted in frequency before placement in the time domain.