Radar signals’ qualities make them inherently difficult to recreate with a signal generator. Their combination of carrier frequency, modulation bandwidth, and in most cases, their pulsed nature creates a series of requirements difficult to match with existing instrumentation. The increasing complexity of radar systems, the growing use of complex modulation techniques such as Barker codes, poly …
When testing complex electronic warfare and wireless communications systems, engineers and researchers need the flexibility to accurately recreate real-world signals. Unfortunately, the real world is messy, and its RF landscape can change rapidly from moment to moment. Thus, engineers often need to cycle through fast-changing signals quickly. With this need in mind, we’ve introduced new Streaming …
Increasingly, designers of radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems and components need to perform modulation and pulse analyses at wider bandwidths. Spectrum managers also need to record and analyze hours of wide bandwidth data. There area number of test and measurement challenges associated with these needs, however.
Here are eight challenges with wideband radar:
Generating …
A signal generator is any device that creates electronic signals. There are many different types with diverse purposes and applications. Function generators, arbitrary waveform generators, and vector signal generators are common types of specialized signal generators.
Waveform Generator
A waveform generator is used to generate electrical waveforms over a wide range of signals. Common types of …
When I ask my quantum research customers what part of their project they’re most excited about, almost invariably they tell me it’s some unique element of their quantum chip.
But when the experiment is over, and the findings are published, was the chip the most challenging building block of their computer?
Not always.
In fact, after having gone through it all, many teams find that integration …
The quest to dramatically improve computer performance and capabilities centers on quantum computers – a type of computer that exploits some strange properties of physics on the smallest of scales. While much progress has been made in recent years, even moderately small quantum computers are a long way out from delivering consistent and repeatable results.
Developing viable quantum computers is …
