Modern System Design for Aerospace and Defense Applications

Thank you for your interest in our recent seminar. The presentations below were covered during the event and are available for you to download.

Radar, electronic warfare (EW), and military communications (MILCOM) design is entering a new era where technical challenges are significantly impacting the speed of deployment, cost, and complexity of these systems. High-level system simulation, including environment modeling, is critical to understanding performance in complex scenarios. Presenters will explore these Radar, EW, and MILCOM design challenges using Keysight's PathWave System Design (SystemVue) software.

  • RF System Modeling: This paper aims to show how using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts, combined with model-based design simulation capabilities, can provide the insights needed for a successful design. The paper features an RF channelized receiver and a phased array system that uses COTS components.
  • EW – Deceptive Jamming: This paper covers the design of a deceptive jammer that attempts to deceive the radar by using Range Gate Pull-Off (RGPO) using an 8 GHz to 18 GHz wide capable EW system. The system components highlighted include the RF Front End receiver, AGC circuit, and deceptive jammer signal processing.
  • EW Test and Evaluation: This paper covers how a representative EW threat emitter environment is developed for the evaluation of an EW system's Angle-of-Arrival performance. Generation of RF wave-fronts from environment scenarios using Pulse-Descriptor-Words are described, along with new measurement concepts for configuring a test threat environment.
  • MILCOM- Disrupting Adversary Communications: This paper presents a method of jamming a civilian communication system to avoid having a comms channel for bad actors to operate. To disrupt the communication, a jamming signal is introduced, and its impact on the BER (bit error rate) of the system is assessed to degrade the BER such that communications are impossible.

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