ATI's EW / ELINT Receivers with Digital Signal Processing Techniques course

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.. Instructors: Brian Moore has over 25 years experience in systems engineering in EW, ES / ESM, and ELINT, including electronic attack and radar systems. He has a BSEE from Michigan Technological University and an MSEE from Syracuse University. Mr. Moore has performed system engineering and analysis to integrate new EW technology and techniques with existing systems and platforms throughout his career. In addition, Mr. Moore provides technical inputs to the government for ELINT R&D and provides consulting for EW system architecture and processing, specific emitter identification and tracking, feature extraction, intentional modulation on pulse, signal detection, and wideband / LPI processing. Mr. Moore has performed various EW/ESM systems engineering, analysis, development, integration, and test efforts (INEWS, F-22, A-12, B-2, special projects). Mr. Moore is currently the Senior Vice President and Technical Director for a major research company. Contact this instructor (please mention course name in the subject line) 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 Module 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. Register Now Without Obligation