Radar Test and Electronic Warfare

Performance precision and insight for your radar test and electronic warfare design.

With today's rapid advances in radar test and electronic warfare technology, developing and manufacturing highly specialized and innovative electronic products requires leading-edge technology and tools. Our innovative radar test equipment reduces uncertainty during the design process and delivers confidence in the integrity of increasingly complex designs.

Real-Time Signal Analyzers: Validate your transmitter design with confidence using the unique features of the RSA Series Real-Time Signal Analyzers, including the DPX™ Live RF spectrum (analyzer) display and automated pulse measurements.
Oscilloscope-based Solutions: Characterize wideband transmitter designs with SignalVu Vector Signal Analysis (VSA) Software integrated onto your Performance Oscilloscope, providing up to 33 GHz bandwidth measurements.
Arbitrary Waveform Generators: Easily generate digital and analog baseband, IF, RF and microwave signals with the versatile AWG Series Arbitrary Waveform Generators to stimulate your design during validation. The unique RFXpress® software simplifies creation of very complex signals.

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SignalVu-PC Demonstration Guide (with Stored Signals) – Bringing the Benefits of Wideband Vector Signal Analysis to your PC Understand the benefits of SignalVu-PC Offline Vector Signal Analysis Software when using stored files from supported Tektronix Real-Time Signal Analyzers or Oscilloscopes.
Advanced Radar Analysis: Tools for Measuring Modern Radar Application Note With today’s rapid advances in radar technology, developing and manufacturing highly specialized and innovative electronic products to detect radar signals takes leading-edge technology and tools. Tektronix innovative test equipment reduces testinguncertainty during the design process and delivers confidence in the integrity of increasingly complex designs. Tektronix Arbitrary Waveform Generators, Real-time Spectrum Analyzers and High-Bandwidth Oscilloscopes offer the capabilities you need to manage the requirements of modern radar applications.
Fundamentals of Radar Measurements This primer addresses the needs for pulse generation and measurements, the automated measurements that are available, explanation of just how the automated measurements are made, and how pulses are generated.
Generating Advanced Radar Signals Using Arbitrary Waveform Generators Advances in radar signal generation and processing are being driven by the need to improve resolution and reduce radar spectrum occupancy. Solving these challenges demands exceptional performance from an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) in terms of sample rate, analog bandwidth, and memory.
Improving IED Countermeasure Technology - Using RF Capture and Playback Systems By combining the Tektronix spectrum analyzer and X-COM Systems long duration RF signal storage system, a unique tool results for the recording, analyzing, and creating of new waveforms and complex RF environments to help tackle IED countermeasure technologies.
Amplitude Correction for Impulse Response Measurement of Radar Pulses This technical paper discusses the implementation of amplitude correct and the elimination of amplitude errors in the (IPR) impulse response measurement. This measurement can be performed using a signal analyzer on the RF output of a radar while using the radar’s own chirp as the internal measurement reference.
Impulse Response as a Measurement of the Quality of Chirp Radar Pulses Impulse response, or time-sidelobe, is qualitative indicator of a chirp radar performance. This technical paper introduces and describes the implementation on the Tektronix Spectrum Analyzer and SignalVu software applications.
Calibrate+ Characterize and Emulate systems using RFXpress® in AWG Series System designers and device manufacturers so long have been using one set of instruments for creating digitally modulated RF signals for testing their device, and another set of instruments to characterize their system. With high bandwidth and high sampling rate Tektronix AWG7122B along with RFXpress® software, test signals and device characterization can now be done with one set of general purpose instruments up to 9.6 GHz.
RFXpress Advanced RF/IF/IQ Waveform Creation and Editing Software for Tektronix Arbitrary Waveform Generators This technical brief provides an overview of the RFXpress software for the AWG Series arbitrary waveform generators, including optional plug-ins for Radar and WiMedia UWB applications.
Creating Wireless Signals with Arbitrary Waveform Generators In this primer we look at the technology propelling the digital wireless revolution, some common AWG wireless test applications and important considerations for getting the best performance possible from the arbitrary waveform generator.

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SignalVu-PC Demonstration Guide (with Stored Signals) – Bringing the Benefits of Wideband Vector Signal Analysis to your PC

Understand the benefits of SignalVu-PC Offline Vector Signal Analysis Software when using stored files from supported Tektronix Real-Time Signal Analyzers or Oscilloscopes.

Advanced Radar Analysis: Tools for Measuring Modern Radar Application Note

With today’s rapid advances in radar technology, developing and manufacturing highly specialized and innovative electronic products to detect radar signals takes leading-edge technology and tools. Tektronix innovative test equipment reduces testinguncertainty during the design process and delivers confidence in the integrity of increasingly complex designs. Tektronix Arbitrary Waveform Generators, Real-time Spectrum Analyzers and High-Bandwidth Oscilloscopes offer the capabilities you need to manage the requirements of modern radar applications.

Fundamentals of Radar Measurements

This primer addresses the needs for pulse generation and measurements, the automated measurements that are available, explanation of just how the automated measurements are made, and how pulses are generated.

Generating Advanced Radar Signals Using Arbitrary Waveform Generators

Advances in radar signal generation and processing are being driven by the need to improve resolution and reduce radar spectrum occupancy. Solving these challenges demands exceptional performance from an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) in terms of sample rate, analog bandwidth, and memory.

Improving IED Countermeasure Technology - Using RF Capture and Playback Systems

By combining the Tektronix spectrum analyzer and X-COM Systems long duration RF signal storage system, a unique tool results for the recording, analyzing, and creating of new waveforms and complex RF environments to help tackle IED countermeasure technologies.

Amplitude Correction for Impulse Response Measurement of Radar Pulses

This technical paper discusses the implementation of amplitude correct and the elimination of amplitude errors in the (IPR) impulse response measurement. This measurement can be performed using a signal analyzer on the RF output of a radar while using the radar’s own chirp as the internal measurement reference.

Impulse Response as a Measurement of the Quality of Chirp Radar Pulses

Impulse response, or time-sidelobe, is qualitative indicator of a chirp radar performance. This technical paper introduces and describes the implementation on the Tektronix Spectrum Analyzer and SignalVu software applications.

Calibrate+ Characterize and Emulate systems using RFXpress® in AWG Series

System designers and device manufacturers so long have been using one set of instruments for creating digitally modulated RF signals for testing their device, and another set of instruments to characterize their system. With high bandwidth and high sampling rate Tektronix AWG7122B along with RFXpress® software, test signals and device characterization can now be done with one set of general purpose instruments up to 9.6 GHz.

RFXpress Advanced RF/IF/IQ Waveform Creation and Editing Software for Tektronix Arbitrary Waveform Generators

This technical brief provides an overview of the RFXpress software for the AWG Series arbitrary waveform generators, including optional plug-ins for Radar and WiMedia UWB applications.

Creating Wireless Signals with Arbitrary Waveform Generators

In this primer we look at the technology propelling the digital wireless revolution, some common AWG wireless test applications and important considerations for getting the best performance possible from the arbitrary waveform generator.

Pulse Analysis Using the RSA6100 and DPX

This video demonstrates the ease of use of the pulse analysis capability on the...

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Fundamentals of Radar Measurements Webinar	This seminar focuses on the Automatic Measurement - theory of operation - using Tektronix signal analysis and generation tools. This presentation starts with an overview of common tools used for the testing of radars and important measurement parameters impacting measurement results. It then focuses on the Theory of Operation for the Automatic Pulse Measurements that are available on the latest Tektronix Oscilloscopes and Spectrum Analyzer products. In conclusion it discusses the challenges and solutions for Signal Generation.
Fast, Low Level Spurious Search with Tektronix Real Time Signal Analyzers	Historically, long test times have been required to perform low-level spur searches on high-performance RF and microwave transmitters. In this webinar, learn how the unique wideband architecture of the Tektronix Real Time Signal Analyzers provides a breakthrough approach for this critical test, resulting in faster time to results and a significantly reduced test budget.
AESA Radar Applications and Market Trends Webinar	This webinar covers an overview of radar types and applications, including the current status and future trends of AESA radar systems.
Radar Testing Simplified Webinar	Learn about the latest advanced measurements for chirped radar, hopped radar and very wideband radars. Duration: 28 minutes Speaker: Darren McCarthy, Tektronix RF Technical Marketing Manager

Radar Test and Electronic Warfare

Performance precision and insight for your radar test and electronic warfare design.

Fundamentals of Radar Measurements Webinar

Fast, Low Level Spurious Search with Tektronix Real Time Signal Analyzers

AESA Radar Applications and Market Trends Webinar

Radar Testing Simplified Webinar

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