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Addressing the Design and Verification Challenges of LTE Wireless Design magazine article on testing LTE. Article 2009-02-25	PDF 4.59 MB
Advanced Design System Connected Solutions for Radar and EW Systems This article will explain the benefits of combining a simulated ADS radar model with physical test equipment to create what is referred to as a connect solution. Article 2008-01-28	PDF 799 KB
Airport ground radar System uses Agilent Acqiris PCI Digitizer cards Article Technologies and Thomas Harmon, Raytheon Electronic Systems on airport ground radar systems. Article 2008-02-08	PDF 123 KB
Article by Greg Jue in Wireless Design and Development A new modeling methodology combines FPGAs. Article 2009-06-25
Article in Wireless Design & Development talks about how SIGINT systems adapt to changing threats Basic performance characteristics needed to detect and collect the most difficult RF signals in the environment. Article 2010-08-31
Characterizing Satellite Subsystems and Signals with a Versatile Wideband Measuring Receiver Article discusses an approach that provides greater insight into how internal signal quality can affect transmitted signals. Article 2009-12-22
Creating High-Performance SDR Architectures How to co-design RF architectures together with baseband signal processing to create high performance and flexible SDR architectures that can achieve the critical performance specifications necessary in the operational environment. Article 2008-11-25	PDF 806 KB
Digital Baseband and RF Domain Integration Challenges in Radar Systems - Article Reprint Reconfigurable radar systems employ digital technology in the form of FPGAs and DSPs.That digital technology is combined with RF technology to achieve a high level of flexibility. Article 2012-11-01	PDF 406 KB
Digital Predistortion Linearizes Wireless Power Amplifiers This Article by Wan-Jong Kim, Shawn P. Stapleton, Jong Heon Kim, and Cory Edelman focuses on how digital predistortion linearizes wireless power amplifiers. Article 2005-09-01	PDF 1.75 MB
EE Times & Agilent Blog: Tradeoff: Dynamic range and bandwidth in signal analysis Two different ways of looking at noise figure. Article 2011-01-23
EE Times & Agilent Blog: The changing face of electronic test instrumentation The changing face of electronic test instrumentation. Article 2011-01-12
EE Times Design article: Options for simulating wideband signals Article 2012-02-23
Ensuring The Highest Quality Microwave Measurements - Article High frequencies and stringent application specifications drives a number of critical challenges to be addressed in this article. Article 2013-04-22
Microwave Product Digest article: New Techniques Simplify Military Frequency-Converter Characteriza Covers the transmit and receive chains of all defense systems, ranging from EW, ECM, ESM, ELINT, and SIGINT receivers, to satellite terminals and transponders, and radar systems Article 2012-07-13
Microwaves & RF article: Enhancing Analysis Of Spurious Emissions Enhancing analysis of spurious emissions shows that understanding the test instrument and measured signal can impact speed and accuracy. Article 2011-11-07
Modern Tools for Today’s Radio Article discusses the versatility in today’s test tools and how that versatility contributes to the design and test needs of the modern radio. Article 2009-05-07
Perfecting Pulsed RF Radar Measurements This paper examines the measurements and capabilities that are available for radar using modern spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers and power meters. Article 2007-08-21	PDF 100 KB
Radar, Electronic Warfare, and Electronic Intelligence Testing: Identifying Common Test Challenges This article in Defense Technical Briefs covers common test challenges and radar basics. Radar, EW, and ELINT engineers make a variety of routine measurements. As highlighted earlier, pulse width and PRF or PRI provide important information about a radar system’s resolution and range. Article 2012-11-01	PDF 392 KB
Signal Generation & Analysis for W-i-d-e-b-a-n-d Aerospace/Defense Systems This article discusses how to choose the right broadband measurement solution for signal generation and analysis of your wideband aerospace and defense system. Article 2008-07-01	PDF 175 KB
Simplify Military Frequency-Converter Characterization covers two essential measurements required to characterize converters, port match and transmission response characteristics. Article 2012-06-07
Tackling the Mixed-signal Testing Challenges of SDR Software-defined radios (SDR) utilize a combination of FPGAs, DSPs and analog/RF designs to achieve the radio’s system performance. Article 2011-03-09
Techniques for Time Sidelobe Measurements with Pulse Compression Radar provides enhanced spatial resolution as well as an extended range for a given output power level. Article 2012-06-14
Testing Radar and EW Systems for the Real-World The solutions described in this Microwave Journal article do more than address a wide range of present and future radar systems: They also help overcome organizational hurdles. Article 2012-07-12
The Coming of Age of the Software Communications Architecture Microwave Jounral article reprint on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology, development tools for complex waveforms and radio applications in aerospace/defense and commercial applications. Article 2011-04-24	PDF 1.61 MB
The Ins and Outs of Microwave Signal Capture and Playback - Article Reprint Looks at capture and playback of microwave signals and the multitude of applications in the evaluation of communications, radar and electronic warfare systems. Article 2012-11-01	PDF 758 KB

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