Signal Studio for Pulse Building N7620B

 Features

• Create Keysight Technologies, Inc. validated and performance optimized reference signals for radar and electronic warfare (EW) test

• Basic options produce corrected wideband pulsed signals for component test

• Advanced options produce pulse width patterns with jitter, pulse repetition interval patterns with jitter and wobbulation, and antenna scans for receiver test

• Create radar signals with 2 GHz of bandwidth from 1 to 44 GHz RF

• Import custom waveforms to simulate clutter, radar cross section, electronic countermeasures, and radar threats from intelligence database

• Use the COM API for test automation

• Accelerate the signal creation process with a user interface based on parameterized and graphical signal configuration and tree-style navigation

Simplify Radar/EW Test Signal Creation

Keysight Signal Studio software is a flexible suite of signal-creation tools that will reduce the time you spend on signal simulation. For radar/EW, Signal Studio’s performance-optimized reference signals—validated by Keysight—enhance the characterization and verification of your devices and systems. Through its application-specific user-interface you’ll create custom test signals for component, transmitter, and receiver test.

Component and transmitter test

Signal Studio for pulse building’s basic and advanced capabilities allow you to create corrected signals for component and transmitter test. Its user-friendly interface lets you design pulses with modulation, sequence them in pulse repetition intervals, and apply antenna scans and windowing functions. The applications include:

• Parametric test of components, such as amplifiers, mixers, diplexers, circulators and filters

• Tests of transmitter leakage into receiver

• System tests of analog performance in baseband/IF/RF stages

• Bench testing of novel radar waveforms

Receiver test

Signal Studio for pulse building’s capabilities enable you to create corrected signals for receiver test applications including:

• Performance verification and functional test of receivers during RF/IF/baseband integration and system verification

• Testing of threat identification for radar warning receivers and jammers

• Bench testing of novel radar waveforms

Apply your signals in real-world testing

• Vector signal generators

o VXG

o PSG

o MXG/EXG

o ESG

• Arbitrary waveform generators

o M8190A

o M9330A/N8241A/N6030A

With Signal Studio’s basic capabilities create and customize radar waveforms to characterize the power and modulation performance of your components and transmitters. As radar modulation bandwidths, frequency diversity, and frequency hopping increase, Signal Studio for pulse building works with Keysight arbitrary waveform generators and signal generators to keep you ahead of radar signal demands. Also, easy manipulation of a variety of signal parameters, including pulse width, rise time, fall time, pulse repetition interval, modulation bandwidth, and modulation type, simplifies transmitter component test.

• Create radar modes at a variety of duty cycles, power levels, and frequencies to test power amplifier linearity, gain, and amplitude flatness

• Add modulation onto pulse to measure chip width, chirp linearity and time side lobe levels

• Use a variety of markers to measure average power, peak power, band power, duty cycle jamming-to-signal ratio, and adjacent channel power on an X-series signal analyzer

• Measure transmitter frequency diversity using list sweep, spectrogram or recording

Receiver Test

The advanced capabilities of Signal Studio for pulse building make coherent testing of radar receivers easy. Use a variety of signal sources and arbitrary waveform generators to customize your solution for your testing needs. Achieve 2 GHz of modulation bandwidth with phase coherence up to 44 GHz.

Use Keysight’s unparalleled signal generation and arbitrary waveform generation technology with Signal Studio for pulse building’s advanced capabilities to test electronic warfare receivers and jammers. Emulate any radar threat and future-proof your electronic warfare and electronic countermeasure testing up to 44 GHz.

Radar receiver testing

• Create pulse width patterns with jitter to test response to impairments

• Create pulse repetition interval patterns to test range gating and range/Doppler ambiguity resolution

• Add frequency and phase offsets to test moving target indicator modes and Doppler processing

• Create custom pulses with clutter to test clutter rejection performance

• Import custom waveforms created in MATLAB or SystemVUE to simulate radar cross section, clutter, and electronic countermeasures

RWR/jammer receiver testing

• Define a pulse width, rise and fall time, rise time shape, and modulation-on-pulse

• Add a pulse to a pattern and specify pulse repetition interval patterns or wobbulation

• Organize nested patterns into coherent processing intervals, looks, and dwells

• Create an antenna scan for more threat emitter realism

• Import data from an emitter intelligence database for rapid EW reprogramming

• Use a logic analyzer to verify pulse descriptor words, pulse de-interleaving, emitter identification, input scheduling, and interface management