Product/Service

IQC91000A Wideband Signal Record and Playback System

Source: X-COM Systems

X-COM Systems IQC91000A Series, Signal Record and Playback System is designed for the next generation of defense electronic systems that occupy large information bandwidths. Performance validation of these designs requires extensive testing on the bench, in the chamber and on the range to ensure system readiness prior to deployment.  X-COM System’s new IQC91000A was developed to record such modern waveforms and isolate anomalies that often occur during system integration and real-world validation testing.

Designed for Real-Time Performance
All subsystems in the IQC91000A, from signal capture to digital storage, are optimized to eliminate throughput bottlenecks that can drop samples and create potential recording gaps. The result is that recording, triggering, and data markers all perform together in real time. The IQC91000A’s receiver captures signals anywhere between 500 MHz and 18 GHz and downconverts them to an intermediate frequency whose output is digitized with 12-bit fidelity at up to 3.2 GSamples/s. This signal capture file is sent to the system’s internal SSDs that collectively have 30 Tbytes of capacity. This signal-capture file can then be offloaded at 600 Mbytes/s or faster via eight lanes of PCIe 2.0 to a workstation for analysis.

Key Features

  • 1000 MHz IQ record and playback bandwidth
  • 500 MHz to 18 GHz frequency coverage
  • 90 minutes of continuous record and playback time
  • High-speed data offload for post-processing in Matlab popular VSA tools
  • Sophisticated triggers and markers to time-tag and geo-tage signal events.

Applications

  • Electronic Warfare - Record, Analyze, and Playback real-world RF signals for threat analysis and system validation.
  • Radar – validate complex, long-duration waveform scenarios.  Understand transient and non-complaint emissions.
  • Interference analysis – Search and ID low-level and intermittent signatures that impact your design’s overall performance.  Use the IQ data as forensic evidence to catalog the interfering waveforms.