Aerospace & Defense Application Areas and Case Studies

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1 Aerospace & Defense Application Areas and Case Studies AVICHAL KULSHRESTHA Technical Marketing Engineer National Instruments

2 Graphical System Design A platform-based approach for measurement and control 2

3 PXI Platform Rugged, industrial Quad-Core CPU PXI Express Bus Timing, Triggering, and Synchronization FPGA, DAQ, Modular Instruments Windows or Real-Time OS NI LabVIEW, LabWindows /CVI, NI TestStand Application Specific Modules (GPS, RF) APIs (NI VISA, IVI, NI-DMM) The mark LabWindows is used under a license 3 from Microsoft Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

4 NI Modular Instrumentation Portfolio L-Band S-Band C-Band X-Band Ku--Band K-Band Ka-Band 1 GHz 2 GHz 4 GHz 8 GHz 12 GHz 18 GHz 27 GHz 40 GHz 10 MHz 5663 (Single Stage VSA) Bandwidth: 50MHz 6.6 GHz 85 MHz 5673 (I/Q VSG) Bandwidth: 50MHz 6.6 GHz 20 Hz 5665 (Performance VSA) Bandwidth: 50MHz 3.6 or 14 GHz 65 MHz VST (Vector Signal Transceiver) Bandwidth: 80MHz 6 GHz 200 MHz 5791 Bandwidth: 100 MHz (RF Tranceiver) 4.4 GHz 20 Hz 5667 (Spectrum Monitoring Receiver) Bandwidth: 50 MHz 3.6 or 7GHz 10 MHz NI VSA (Mulit-stage VSA) Bandwidth: 750MHz 26.5 GHz 100 MHz PMI QuickSyn (Performance VSA) Bandwidth: CW / PM / AM / FM 20 GHz 4

5 Software Defined Measurements Application: 1. Spectrum Monitoring Receiver

6 Software Defined Measurements VOR Tester COM Tester All in one PXI Platform! Spectrum Analysis GPS Tester Power Meter Multi- Protocol UUT ADS-B Tester Images courtesy of Agilent, Tektronix, R&S, Anritsu 6

7 Application : Spectrum Monitoring Receiver Scan Receiver Peaks + Time+ Spread+ Power +DF User Selected band (<20MHz) Peaks DF for every Peak Narrowband Receiver DF Receiver Blind Analyzer Selected Channel (<20MHz) Multiple Channels Channelizer Selected band (<20MHz) Selected Channel RF Recorder Decoded Signal Baseband Recorder Selected Channel Coded Signal Decoder 7

8 Spectrum Monitoring Receiver System 8

9 In-line Signal processing Applications 1. Custom protocols 2. Software Defined Radio Prototype 3. Channel Emulator 4. Real-Time Spectrum Analyses (RTSA)

10 FPGA Co-Processing Host Processor Data Input Module Data Output Module 10 In-line FPGA Processor

11 Application 1: Custom Protocol (SDLC) FPGA Module SDLC IP HDLC Manchester Encoding SPI / I2C SMBus FlexRIO Adapter Module NI 6581 Single Ended 100 MHz NI 6583 Single Ended & LVDS NI 6585 LVDS 200 MHz NI 6584 RS 422/RS Mbps 11

12 Application 2: SDR Prototyping Prototype Half/ full-duplex, single/ multiple channel digital waveforms Up to 50MHz Bandwidth, 144Mbps modems Standard PHY or custom waveforms Up to 6GHz Frequency Range, 4x4MIMO In-line Processing Rx Channel Filter Rx Signal Processing Demodulation Channel Decoding Source Decoding Rx Tx Signal Processing Tx Source Coding Channel Coding Modulation Pulse Shaping Tx 12

13 Application 3: Channel Emulator Up to 6GHz Frequency Range, 200MHz wideband channels Up 8x8 and various combinations Programmable Fading, Doppler, Range Delay, Noise, Multipath 3GPP LTE (ETU EVA, HS Train, MBSFN), GSM, 3G802.11n/ac Up to 24 path and 8 nodes full mesh network emulation In-line Processing Rx Rx Rx Signal Processing DDC Resampler Filter Channel Emulation Fading Doppler shift Range delay Noise Multi-path Re-sampler DUC Tx Signal Processing Tx Tx 13

14 Application 4: Real-Time Spectrum Analysis PXIe-5668R VSA + PXIe-7976R FlexRIO in PXIe-1085 Up to 800MHz RF bandwidth and 26.5GHz frequency range Features Gapless persistence, spectrogram, and trace statistics (max hold, min hold, average) calculated on FPGA Process up to 2 M FFTs/s using overlapped, windowed FFTs Real-time frequency mask triggering 100% probability of intercept (POI) Minimum duration options: o 1 µs or >15 µs 3 GB/s 14

15 High Speed backplane Applications 1. Record and Playback 2. High performance Computing 3. High Channel Count Data Acquisition

16 PXI Data Transfer x4 PCIe Links Data can be transferred to other modules or controller to PCI express PXI Express Slot 1 x4 x4 x4 x4 PCIe Switch PCIe Switch PCIe Switch PCIe Switch x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x4 x PCIe to PCI PCIe to PCI Slot Color Legend PXIe Hybrid Slot PXIe Slot PXIe System Timing Slot 16

17 Application 1: Record and Playback Record and Playback: IF, RF, Analog baseband, digital baseband Unique to PXI because of high-throughput data-streaming Up to 16 channels of 50MHz wideband record and playback. Introduce criteria like voice tagging, Time stamping, geo-location stamping, etc. Include in-line Signal Processing to perform condition based acquisition/ playback 17

18 Application 2: High Performance Computing x8 PCI Express Backplane 1.6GB/s in each direction User Input [RADAR(DUT) parameters, Target Profile, Dynamic Environmental Conditions] Host Server PC Intel 8-core Xeon processor with advanced graphics processor IQ Signal (-80M to +80M Bandwidth) RF Input In-loop FPGA RF Signal (160MHz Bandwidth) RF from DUT Xilinx Virtex V Sx95T FPGAs In-loop FPGA In-loop Server PC In-loop Server PC Intel 8-core Xeon processor with 32GB RAM Storage 24 TB high speed RAID drive IQ Signal (-80M to +80M Bandwidth) PCI Express Backplane RF Output RF Signal (160MHz Bandwidth) RF to DUT 18

19 Application 3: High Channel Count Data Acquisition Static and Dynamic loading Tests Centralized/ Distributed architecture Acquire up to 8000 Channels Cumulative Data Acquisition rate of > 4GS/s Triggered and synchronized acquisition Onboard Signal conditioning for sensors 19

20 Portable Form Factor Application 1. Portable Avionics Tester

21 Higher performance Smaller size Flexibility Easily upgradable design User-defined solution 21 Photos Courtesy of Agilent, Keithley, and Nicolet

22 Application: Portable Avionics Tester AT-200MC (Beta-Air) Functionality of DMM, Scope, FGen, VSA, VSG, Digital IO Bus Interfaces: MIL-1553, ARINC-429, RS-485, RS U Height, 45Kg weight Integrated Display CBATS Avionics Test System (CACI) Mil-grade connectors < 800W Power consumption, Universal Power Supply Ruggedized Options JSS MIL-STD-810 MIL-STD

23 Integration with Third-party Software Applications Applications 1. Hardware-in-Loop testing 2. Navigation Simulator 3. RADAR Environment Simulator

24 Application 1: Hardware-in-Loop Testing 24

25 Application 1: Hardware-in-Loop Testing Signal Generator DUT Signal Analyzer 25

26 Application 2: Avionics Navigation Simulator Simulate multiple Avionics LRUs including Navigation aids, Radios, Sensors, MFD, Lighting systems, etc. GPS GPS+COM Import 3 rd -party simulation software and integrate with IOs using LabVIEW HSI LORAN Insert Faults into the system VOR ILS ADF A-N Range 26

27 Application 3: RADAR Environment Simulator Host Server PC Host Server PC FPGA processor Scene Definition RADAR PRI Pulse Width Modulation Type ECCM features Antenna Pattern Scan pattern Peak Power Rendering Applying Models Received IQ signal Streaming to storage Generation Applying real-time threat modifications Digital Upconversion Combining multiple threats on single channel Platform Trajectory Velocity profile Acceleration Profile Angular profile RF In RF Out EW DUT Scenario Threat Model 27

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