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Real-Time Signal Analyzer
Jamming and spoofing, two types of intentional disruption of communications, are ever-increasing threats, and getting ever more difficult to combat.
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Development of a 94 GHz Radar System for Dedicated Bird Detection at Airports and Airfields
BIRDAR™ detected small birds at distances of 1.2 to 1.3 km and large birds.
Briefs Semiconductors & ICs
FPGAs and HPC
A study determined the value of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Testing EMI Materials for Battlefield Applications
The testing of EMI materials must be rigorous and designed to predict performance over the lifetime of a material.
Products Data Acquisition
New Products
Coaxial connectors, tactical servers, test benches, surge protectors, and more.
Products Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New Products
A folded zoom lens, miniature rotary encoders, starter generator control, and more.
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Spectrum Processing Subsystems
The subsystems enable the development and deployment of electronic warfare and signal intelligence.
Articles Test & Measurement
How Solid-State Technology Impacts A&D Equipment Testing
Learn how to provide accurate power sources with adjustable voltages and frequencies during the test cycle.
Articles Test & Measurement
Manufacturer Reduces Risk and Improves Quality of Military Radar Receivers
Radar receiver sensitivity is critical for electronic warfare (EW) applications.
Articles Electronics & Computers
Advances in Millimeter-Wave Isolator Design Launch Manufacturers into Stratospheric Operating Frequencies
The sky’s the limit for utilizing the higher ends of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
SDR Interface for the NeXtRAD Multistatic Radar System
Learn about the multistatic data that can be collected on maritime targets.
Products Test & Measurement
New Products
Lange Couplers The construction and port orientation of the Lange Coupler from SemiGen (Londonderry, NH) makes it useful as both a power combiner and splitter for RF and microwave applications. It is a specific type of directional...
Articles Test & Measurement
Multi-Agent RF Propagation Simulator
A desirable interface between multi-agents is through over-the-air RF connections that include not only the intended direct RF communications paths but also highly variable multi-ray propagation, range...
Articles Test & Measurement
An Integrated Framework for Complex Radar System Design
Modern radar systems are complex and depend heavily on advanced signal processing algorithms to improve their detection performance. At the same time, the radio front-end must meet...
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Hardware Design of a High Dynamic Range Radio Frequency (RF) Harmonic Measurement System
Radio frequency (RF) circuit elements that are traditionally considered to be linear frequently exhibit nonlinear properties that affect the intended...
Articles Imaging
Developing Secondary Surveillance Radar Automated Test Equipment
Unlike primary radars, Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) calculates the range and azimuth of a target, such as an aircraft, using a bidirectional communication link to gather...
Application Briefs Test & Measurement
Software-Designed System Improves Wireless Test Speed and Coverage
As wireless standards become more complex, the number of operational modes for these devices increases exponentially. As progression continues to the latest WiFi standard, new...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Next-Generation Spectrometers for Rapid Analysis of Complex Mixtures
Molecules have internal motions that are characteristic of their structure and identity. These motions can be studied by spectroscopy in different regions of the...
Products Test & Measurement
Microwave Analog Signal Generators
Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced two microwave analog signal generators: the N5183B MXG and N5173B EXG. The MXG has phase noise of less than -124 dBc/Hz (at 10 GHz, 10 kHz offset). The EXG...
Articles Defense
Automated Testing of Advanced, High-Performance, Point-to-Multipoint Radio Systems
In 2008, 4RF Communications started development of a new range of radio products to augment their existing point-to-point, long-range wireless link product. Used...
Products Test & Measurement
Arbitrary Waveform Generator
Geotest-Marvin Test Systems (Irvine, CA) has announced the GX1649 64-channel PXI arbitrary waveform generator with 16-bit amplitude resolution and an output voltage range of ±15 volts. It is suited for use in...
Articles Test & Measurement
Testing Modern Radios
Several techniques are now being employed to ensure efficient communications across the chaotic radio spectrum. Chief among them is Software Defined Radio (SDR), which uses software to dynamically control communications...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Radar, Electronic Warfare, and Electronic Intelligence Testing: Identifying Common Test Challenges
Radio detection and ranging (RADAR) systems, as they were originally called, have blossomed into a wide array of indispensible equipment for...
Articles Test & Measurement
Using Software Defined Instruments to Address the Mixed-Signal Test Challenges of Today’s Software Defined Radios
Software Defined Radio (SDR) represents an important move forward for mobile and personal communications, promising a major...
Products Electronics & Computers
Digitizer/Signal Generator
Innovative Integration (Simi Valley, CA) offers the X6-1000M that integrates highspeed digitizing and signal generation with signal processing on a PMC/XMC IO module. The coupling of the digitizing to a Virtex6 FPGA...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Spectrally Compliant Waveforms for Wideband Radar
Modern radars often require the use of wideband waveforms to perform high-resolution target imaging. In microwave systems, the bandwidth can be on the order of 1.5 GHz, while in UHF systems that...
Products Electronics & Computers
16-Bit Data Acquisition Board
Pentek, Inc. (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has added the Model 71662 four-channel, 200 MHz, 16-bit data acquisition board with built-in digital down converters (DDCs) to its popular Cobalt® family of Xilinx Virtex-6...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Vector Signal Generators and Analyzers
National Instruments (Austin, TX) offers the NI PXIe-5663E 6.6-GHz, 2-, 3-, and 4-channel RF vector signal analyzers (VSA) and NI PXIe-5673E 6.6-GHz, 2-, 3-, and 4-channel RF vector signal generators (VSG)...
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