Complex radar signal source for radar receivers testing

Author

Luszczyk, Mariusz ; Szczepaniak, Zenon R. ; Arvaniti, Andrzej ; Orzel-Tatarczuk, Emanuela

Author_Institution

Przemyslowy Inst. Telekomunikacji S.A., Warsaw, Poland

fYear

2010

fDate

14-16 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a design of a Radar Signal Generator (RSG) for radar receivers testing and development (i.e. receiver dynamic measurement, pulse compression modules). RSG is a multifunction flexible radar signal source generating multichannel coherent signals with reference signal for radar station and the other auxiliary signals and noise signal. The presented design is based on digital synthesizers with high flexibility in radar signal intrapulse modulation schemes. The architecture of RSG allows complex signals generating with bandwidth up to 150MHz (the frequency range is limited with proper filters due to most used frequency ranges). Phase stability of the output signal is less 1º deviation RMS and phase noise performance of reference signals is -134dBc/Hz@1kHz for 10MHz.

Keywords

Digital modulation; Frequency; Noise generators; Pulse compression methods; Pulse measurements; Radar measurements; Signal design; Signal generators; Synthesizers; Testing; Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG); Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS); radar receiver; radar signals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Radar and Wireless Communications (MIKON), 2010 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vilnius, Lithuania

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5288-0

Type

conf

Filename

5540602