News Release from: RF Engines
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 3 May 2006
Signal processing unlocks atomic data
RF Engines has completed a groundbreaking study for the French Atomic Energy Commission and is to implement a laboratory demonstration system that will incorporate the results.
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RF Engines has completed a groundbreaking study for the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Laboratories and has signed a major new contract to implement a laboratory demonstration system that will incorporate the results. The system provides a flexible and efficient digital receiver architecture, capable of detecting and characterising signals with a broad range of different modulation schemes and durations. This work follows on from an earlier evaluation of RF Engines' pipelined frequency transform (PFT) demonstration system by the CEA.
The system is due for delivery in 2006, and will be used by the CEA to investigate complex signals.
Traditional receiver architectures tend to be optimised for receiving one particular signal type, and therefore do not perform efficiently when there are a multitude of different signal types which are of interest.
The PFT architecture, patented by RF Engines, has an inherent multiple-resolution capability, which allows the input spectrum to be processed through a range of different filter bandwidths simultaneously.
This means that there is always a filter available that is close to the optimal type required for every signal type, thereby maximising the likelihood of detection and enhancing the quality of the analysis.
In addition to the filter bank part of the design, RF Engines has also investigated a range of techniques for determining the precise frequency of each received signal, and for characterising the modulation.
Each of the techniques was simulated in the PC environment in order to characterise performance over a range of signal types.
John Summers, RF Engines' CEO said: 'We are delighted to be building on our existing relationship with CEA'.
'Once again, we have been able to demonstrate how RF Engines' unique signal processing architectures provide solutions to some of the most difficult problems in the design of complex digital receivers'.
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