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ATI's EW / ELINT Receivers with Digital Signal Processing Techniques course
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Summary:
This three-day course addresses digital signal processing theory, methods, techniques and algorithms with practical applications to ELINT. Digitizing, filtering, demodulation, spectral analysis, correlation, parameter measurement, effects of noise and interference, display techniques and additional areas are included. Directed primarily to ELINT/EW engineers and scientists responsible for ELINT digital signal processing system software and hardware design, installation, operation and evaluation, it is also appropriate for those having management or technical responsibility..
Instructor:
What you will learn:
- EW/ELINT receiver techniques and technologies
- Digital Signal Processing Techniques
- Application of DSP techniques to digital receiver development
- Key digital receiver functions and components
- Fundamental performance analysis and error estimating techniques
From this course you will obtain the knowledge and understanding of digital signal processing concepts and theories for digital receivers and their applications to EW/ELINT/ES systems while balancing theory with practice.
Course Outline:
- Module
- Electronic Warfare Overview - ELINT / ESM (ES)
- Signals and the Electromagnetic Environment
- Antenna and Receiver Parameters: Sensitivity, Dynamic Range, TOI, Noise Figure, Inst. BW
- Detection Fundamentals - Pd, Pfa, SNR, Effective BW
- Receiver Architectures: Crystal Video, IFM, Channelized, Superheterodyne (Narrowband / Wideband), Compressive (Microscan) and Acousto–Optic (Bragg Cell)
- Receiver Architecture Advantages / Disadvantages
- Architectures for Direction Finding
- DF and Location Techniques: Amp. Comparison/TDOA/Interferometer
- Trends: Wideband, Multi-Function, Digital
- Module
- Introduction - Digital Processing
- Basic DSP Operations, Sampling Theory, Quantization: Nyquist (Low-pass, Band-pass). Aliasing, Fourier, Z-Transform
- Hilbert Transforms and the Analytic Signal
- Quadrature Demodulation: Direct Digital Down-conversion ( fs/4 and m*fs/4 IF Sampling )
- Digital Receiver “Components”: Signal Conditioning,(Pre-ADC) and Anti-Aliasing, Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC), Demodulators, CORDICs, Differentiators, Interpolators, Decimators, Equalizers, Detection and Measurement Blocks, Filters (IIR and FIR), Multi-Rate Filters and DSP, Clocks, Timing, Synchronization, Formatters & Embedded Processors
- Channelized Architectures: Poly-Phase and others
- Digital Receiver Advantages and Technology Trends
- Digital Receiver Architecture Examples
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- Measurement Basics - Error Definitions, Metrics, Averaging
- Statistics and Confidence Levels for System Assessment
- Error Sources & Statistical Distributions of Interest to System Designers
- Parameter Errors due to Noise
— Thermal, Phase & Quantization Noise impacts on key parameters
— Noise Modeling and SNR Estimation
- Parameter Errors for Correlated Samples
- Simultaneous Signal Interference
- A/D Performance, Parameters and Error Sources
- Freq, Phase, Amp Errors due to Quantization – strict derivation
- Combining Errors, Error Sources, Error Propagation and Sample Error Budget
- Performance Assessment Methods
- Receiver Equalization and Characterization
Tuition:
Tuition for this three-day course is $1895 at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email
to ati@aticourses.com.
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