RF Capture and Storage: WARP
The Wideband Acquisition Record and Playback (WARP™) system allows the entire frequency spectrum between DC and 6000 MHz to be instantaneously captured and recorded for long periods without loss of a single event. The WARP-6000’s 6 GHz of bandwidth is 15 times that of its nearest competitor. When combined with X-COM’s Spectro-X™ signal analysis software, WARP allows the performance of electronic warfare, radar, and advanced wireless communications systems to be evaluated more comprehensively than has been possible before. This system offers unprecedented signal analysis capability for spectrum management, broadband system development, and RF environmental simulation applications.
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•Datasheet: Wideband Acquisition Record And Playback (WARP™) System
X-COM’s WARP system accepts analog signals directly from an antenna or via an external downconverter, converts them to the digital domain using a high-performance analog-to-digital converter (ADC) sampling at 12 Gsamples/s, and stores the data on solid-state media with capacity of up to 32 Tbytes that allows 44 minutes of signal capture. Additional recording time is possible by adding storage modules. Signal files are stored in an open format allowing captured signals to be analyzed by a wide range of third party tools including MATLAB. This data can then be analyzed with Spectro-X software, which allows signals of interest to be rapidly found even when in the presence of much stronger signals or when interferers appear randomly and infrequently.
The WARP-6000 can then reconvert to analog form the entire 6 GHz bandwidth or only the portion of interest using a high-performance 12 Gsamples/s digital-to-analog converter (DAC) so it can be used to stimulate a radar, EW, or communications system to evaluate its performance. X-COM’s WaveCAFE™ software can be used to measure signal characteristics, employ custom digital filters, and rapidly create custom waveforms that can be incorporated into the data stream. In addition, the signal pattern can be rearranged using X-COM’s RF Editor™ software, whose intuitive user interface is similar to that of professional audio editing software.