Radar and Electronic Warfare
Performance precision and insight for your radar test and electronic warfare design.
Designing effective electronic countermeasures for radar and electronic warfare threats is a difficult and demanding task.
From wideband radar implementations to surveillance and band clearing, these applications require greater levels of vigilance each day.
Tektronix content and tools provides the expertise and innovative solutions to help you meet the challenge.
Learn more about how to see aspects of your signals that were previously invisible and how to recreate stimuli and environmental factors with impressive fidelity, giving you the insight to increase the capabilities of your systems, shorten your design cycle and build confidence in your final design.
Featured Content
Radar Basics
While radar technology was initially focused on military and commercial aviation applications, today there are many commercial applications. This application note covers the basics of modern radar applications from military to commercial use in automotive design. This application note also dives deeper into pulsed radar measurements, as well as the lifecycle of radar measurement tasks.
Analyzing Radar Signals Primer
The transient nature of radar pulses combined with modern pulse compression schemes often demand carefully designed test setups. This Primer will cover measurements methods, choosing your measurement parameters, how to find the pulse, estimating the carrier frequency and phase, timing measurements, frequency and phase measurements and chirp measurements.
Creating Signals That Look Real to Radar
What's the best solution to help you create complex radar test signals at the highest frequencies? Our new application note, “Radar Signal Generation with a High-Performance AWG,” answers that question and explains much more.
Military / Government Brochure
Integrated Tektronix measurement tools for signal capture, characterization, simulation and analysis help you deliver on your promises. Learn more about our military/government solutions.
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.
Overcoming RF Signal Generation Challenges with New DAC Technologies White Paper
Using an AWG for direct RF complex signal generation.
Recommended Equipment
RSA7100A
DPO70000SX
AWG70000
RSA5000
RSA500
AWG5200 Arbitrary Waveform Generator
Arbitrary Waveform Generators
Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers
Oscilloscopes
Library
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| 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. |
| AN Using an AWG For Threat Generation AN Using an AWG For Threat Generation |
| Noise Figure: Overview of Noise Measurement MethodsMeasuring the noise contributions of circuit elements, in the form of noise factor or noise figure is an important tasks for RF and microwave engineers. This paper, along with its associated appendices presents an overview of noise measurement methods, with detailed emphasis on the Y-factor method and its associated measurement uncertainties. |
| Tektronix and X-COM Systems Platform Provide Unique Capabilities for RF Signal Capture and Analysis The Tektronix RSA5000B and RSA6000B real-time spectrum analyzers and X-COM’s IQC5000A RF capture recorded playback system provide an excellent solution for challenging defense applications. |
| Creating Signals That Look Real to Radar What's the best solution to help you create complex radar test signals at the highest frequencies? Our new application note, “Radar Signal Generation with a High-Performance AWG,” answers that question and explains much more. |
| 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. |
| Fundamentals of Radar Measurements This primer addresses the needs for pulse generation and measurements, the automated measurements that are available, and explains how the automated measurements are made as well as how pulses are generated. |
| Detecting Drones Using a Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer Flying drones can be fun. For RC and photography enthusiasts, a drone is a source of entertainment, and with a camera attached, provides breathtaking birds-eye views. For commercial and first responder purposes, a drone can be a valuable asset for information and increase productivity. However, when a drone is operating where it shouldn’t, the potential ramifications can be catastrophic and costly. For these situations, organizations need real-time, accurate, simple to operate and cost-effective solutions for detecting drones flying in or near restricted airspace. In this application note, we’ll discuss the basics for detecting a drone with a Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer and how networking multiple Spectrum Analyzers together can create an automated drone detection system with 24/7 monitoring capabilities. |
| Emission Control, Radiation Hazards, and the Value of Intelligent RF Sensing for These Applications In this whitepaper, we will discuss electromagnetic radiation, EMCON and the three forms of RADHAZ. We’ll conclude with a discussion of how incorporating a USB Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer, such as Tektronix’ RSA500 series, can assist in identifying EMCON violations and mitigating RADHAZ risks. |
| Understanding Radar Signals Using Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers This Primer will cover measurements methods, choosing your measurement parameters, how to find the pulse, estimating the carrier frequency and phase, timing measurements, frequency and phase measurements and chirp measurements. |
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| Techniques for Validating Electronic Countermeasures | The webinar examines approaches for validating Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) systems using the Tektronix Real Time Spectrum Analyzers such as the RSA5100B and RSA7100A. |
| Conquering Radar Signal Generation | Let us help you decode radar signal generation with our informative webinar. |
| Conquering Wideband Radar | Are you trying to build high fidelity wideband signal environments? Are you struggling to pick up on notoriously difficult to detect wideband signals? This webinar will focus on the challenges related to the adoption of wideband radar and techniques to master them. This hour long webinar features Tektronix expert Bill Byrom, who will share his insights on the key factor to consider when simulating and analyzing wideband signals. |
| Making Modern Radar Measurements the Easy Way | At one time, radar measurements could be performed using an oscilloscope for time domain, and a spectrum analyzer for frequency domain parameters. As radars became more and more complex, the measurements also became more complex. To perform today's measurements the easy way, test instrumentation needs to include automatic measurement techniques that are focused on today's radars. |
