Systems Engineering - ATI
Systems Engineering - ATI
Systems Engineering - ATI
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EW / ELINT Receivers<br />
with Digital Signal Processing Techniques<br />
October 5-7, 2010<br />
Rome, New York<br />
November 9-11, 2010<br />
Washington DC<br />
$1895 (8:30am - 4:03pm)<br />
"Register 3 or More & Receive $100 00 each<br />
Off The Course Tuition."<br />
Summary<br />
This three-day course addresses digital signal processing<br />
theory, methods, techniques and algorithms with practical<br />
applications to ELINT. Digitizing, filtering, demodulation,<br />
spectral analysis, correlation, parameter measurement,<br />
effects of noise and interference, display techniques and<br />
additional areas are included. Directed primarily to<br />
ELINT/EW engineers and scientists responsible for ELINT<br />
digital signal processing system software and hardware<br />
design, installation, operation and evaluation, it is also<br />
appropriate for those having management or technical<br />
responsibility .<br />
Instructor<br />
Brian Moore has over 25 years experience in systems<br />
engineering in EW, ES / ESM, and ELINT, including electronic<br />
attack and radar systems. He has a BSEE from Michigan<br />
Technological University and an MSEE from Syracuse<br />
University. Mr. Moore has performed system engineering and<br />
analysis to integrate new EW technology and techniques with<br />
existing systems and platforms throughout his career. In<br />
addition, Mr. Moore provides technical inputs to the<br />
government for ELINT R&D and provides consulting for EW<br />
system architecture and processing, specific emitter<br />
identification and tracking, feature extraction, intentional<br />
modulation on pulse, signal detection, and wideband / LPI<br />
processing. Mr. Moore has performed various EW/ESM<br />
systems engineering, analysis, development, integration, and<br />
test efforts (INEWS, F-22, A-12, B-2, special projects). Mr.<br />
Moore is currently the Senior Vice President and Technical<br />
Director for a major research company.<br />
What You Will Learn<br />
From this course you will obtain the knowledge and<br />
understanding of digital signal processing concepts and<br />
theories for digital receivers and their applications to<br />
EW/ELINT/ES systems while balancing theory with practice.<br />
• EW/ELINT receiver techniques and technologies.<br />
• Digital Signal Processing Techniques.<br />
• Application of DSP techniques to digital receiver<br />
development.<br />
• Key digital receiver functions and components.<br />
• Fundamental performance analysis and error estimating<br />
techniques.<br />
Course Outline<br />
Module 1:<br />
• Electronic Warfare Overview - ELINT / ESM (ES).<br />
• Signals and the Electromagnetic Environment.<br />
• Antenna and Receiver Parameters.<br />
• Sensitivity, Dynamic Range, TOI, Noise Figure, Inst. BW.<br />
• Detection Fundamentals - Pd, Pfa, SNR, Effective BW.<br />
• Receiver Architectures.<br />
• Crystal Video, IFM, Channelized.<br />
• Superheterodyne (Narrowband / Wideband).<br />
• Compressive (Microscan) and Acousto–Optic (Bragg Cell).<br />
• Receiver Architecture Advantages / Disadvantages.<br />
• Architectures for Direction Finding.<br />
• DF and Location Techniques.<br />
• Amp. Comparison/TDOA/Interferometer.<br />
• Trends: Wideband, Multi-Function, Digital.<br />
Module 2:<br />
• Introduction - Digital Processing.<br />
• Basic DSP Operations, Sampling Theory, Quantization.<br />
• Nyquist (Low-pass, Band-pass). Aliasing, Fourier, Z-<br />
Transform.<br />
• Hilbert Transforms and the Analytic Signal.<br />
• Quadrature Demodulation.<br />
• Direct Digital Down-conversion (fs/4 and m*fs/4 IF Sampling).<br />
• Digital Receiver “Components”.<br />
• Signal Conditioning.<br />
• (Pre-ADC) and Anti-Aliasing.<br />
• Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC).<br />
• Demodulators, CORDICs.<br />
• Differentiators.<br />
• Interpolators, Decimators, Equalizers.<br />
• Detection and Measurement Blocks.<br />
• Filters (IIR and FIR).<br />
• Multi-Rate Filters and DSP.<br />
• Clocks, Timing, Synchronization, Formatters & Embedded<br />
Processors.<br />
• Channelized Architectures: Poly-Phase and others.<br />
• Digital Receiver Advantages and Technology Trends.<br />
• Digital Receiver Architecture Examples.<br />
Module 3:<br />
• Measurement Basics - Error Definitions, Metrics, Averaging.<br />
• Statistics and Confidence Levels for System Assessment.<br />
• Error Sources & Statistical Distributions of Interest to System<br />
Designers.<br />
• Parameter Errors due to Noise.<br />
• Thermal, Phase & Quantization Noise impacts on key<br />
parameters.<br />
• Noise Modeling and SNR Estimation.<br />
• Parameter Errors for Correlated Samples.<br />
• Simultaneous Signal Interference.<br />
• A/D Performance, Parameters and Error Sources.<br />
• Freq, Phase, Amp Errors due to Quantization – strict derivation.<br />
• Combining Errors, Error Sources, Error Propagation and Sample<br />
Error Budget.<br />
• Performance Assessment Methods.<br />
• Receiver Equalization and Characterization.<br />
Register online at www.<strong>ATI</strong>courses.com or call <strong>ATI</strong> at 888.501.2100 or 410.956.8805 Vol. 104 – 7