Digital Oscilloscope Test Applicaonsfor Electronic Warfare

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CUSTOMER: DoE Sandia Naonal Laboratories SOW: DE-AC04-94AL85000

Sandia Naonal Laboratories (Sandia) is a mul-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporaon, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lockheed Marn Corporaon (LMC), for the U.S. Department of Energy's Naonal Nuclear Security Administraon under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.

Sandia has several groups focused on the advancement of Electronic Warfare (EW) technologies:

1)1) Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems enable a new product paradigm in radar capabilies and modalies. With the ability to shrink sensor size, increase resoluon, raise image quality, and advance real–me on–board processing, Airborne ISR has been dedicated to producing the connuous cycle of next generaon systems. Airborne ISR specializes in the full system design of exquisite Synthec Aperture Radar (SAR), Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI), target recognion and other sensor systems for the DoDoD, other Government Agencies and industry partners.

2) Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) are focused on reducing the size and weight of RF components while increasing their power efficiency (SWaP).

To keep at the forefront of EW advancements, Sandia recognized the need to acquire the latest and most advanced oscilloscope.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTSSandia required a digital oscilloscope that provided a minimum sampling rate of 60GSa/s, a bandwidth of 25GHz, and a minimum of 100Mpts memory per channel to enable them to test advanced radar applicaons.

• RF Envelope• Radar Demodulaon (Amplitude, Frequency, Phase Demodulaon) • Doppler Shi Measurements• Fast Data Transfer•• FFT / Inverse FFT• Frequency Linearity• Frequency Step Change Analysis

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• Hilbert Transform Envelope and Instantaneous Frequency ( MATLAB® ) – extract Pulsed RF Envelope informaon• Phase Shi• Pulse Repe on Interval (PRI) and Pulse Repe on Frequency (PRF)• Pulse Width Modulaon (PWM)• Time-base Stability•• Custom / Classified Measurements• DoD Sanizaon Procedures

TEVET SOLUTIONTEVETEVET engaged directly with the engineering team at Sandia to gain a full understanding of the applicaon and the test challenges they face. TEVET conducted a full gap analysis to gain further insight to what was required for not only today’s need, but also future capabilies the customer may have. Determining factors of the gap analysis for idenfying the best COTS soluon included: not only selecng a high performance digital oscilloscope that met all the current required specificaon, but also selecng an instrument provider that offered instrument plplaorms for future EW requirements. A er evaluang several technologies from different instrumentaon providers, TEVET seled on Keysight and their DSOZ254A. In addion to meeng today’s need, we found that only Keysight offered extensive product lines of oscilloscopes and soware analysis plaorms for future modernizaon.

Z-Series is the World’s Fastest Real-me Oscilloscopes

DSOZ254A• 25GHz BW (upgradeable to 63GHz)• Proprietary RealEdge Technology• 16GB RAM Quad Core I5 Processor • 4-Channels / Threaded 3.5mm RF Connectors• 80GSa/s all 4-Channels•• Capture Rise Times as fast as 5ps• Industry’s lowest Noise Floor• Industry’s lowest Jier Measurement Floor• Industry’s deepest Memory (2Gpts)• Industry’s first 15.4” Capacive Touch Screen• Industry leading 3yrs Warranty (all products)•• Add VSA Soware to enable tesng in the Time, Frequency, and Modulaon domains o Characterize RF Power Amplifier behavior with complex measurements o EW & Radar Measurements

In selecng the best oscilloscope, we idenfied the need to select a Test & Measurement (T&M) OEM who not only kept abreast of advancements in EW technologies, but is helping to push the envelope in digital measurements, so that the instruments required in the future are already on their roadmap today.

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Keysight Technologies, since its founding in 1939 as Hewlett-Packard, has always been that premier T&M OEM. Their engineers and scientists sit on many of the technical committees that write the industry standards. No other T&M OEM spends more money on R&D. Keysight Technologies has a heritage of inventing a long and broad line of successful new technologies - many of these innovations have been the starting points for major businesses.

TOTAL COST-OF-OWNERSHIP I INVESTMENT PROTECTION

Total Cost-of-Ownership - Not only did the Keysight DSOZ254A exceed Sandia's Minimum Requirements, T EVET was able to apply a Keysight Promo (Code #5.500) which provided Sandia SOOMpts of memory at "No Cost", a savings of $35,838.

All backed by an industry-leading 3 year warranty and 10 year extended service plan.

Investment Protection - In addition, the DSOZ254A is fully upgradeable to 63GHz bandwidth at a later date if so required. No need to start all over and purchase a new oscilloscope.

Capture, display & measure multiple real-time signals simultaneously

Radar & SatCom

analysis - FFT quickly identifies peaks, span,

start & stop

8-Barker coded and 8LFM chirped radar

waveformssimultaneously

Large 15.4" capacitive touch display so user can see more of their signal (READ)

LFM chirped analysis via 89600 VSA SW

Hilbert transform envelope and

instantaneous frequency via MATLAB®

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READ: Some other OEM's oscilloscope touch screens use resistance touch screens

which are generally limited to one touch at a time, notoriously inaccurate, and

difficult to use. Around 2007, Cellphone OEMs introduced capacitive touch screens

to the market; Keysight has adopted this display platform for their oscilloscopes.

Capacitive touch screens are significantly more precise and have the ability to

register multiple touches simultaneously.

The number one goal of T&M instruments is to be able to identify, isolate, and

analyze a system as quickly and efficiently as possible. Having an effective touch

screen implementation on T&M instruments can reduce the time it takes to

configure those instruments and analyze a device's signals. It is safe to say that T&M

instruments have more buttons, knobs and menus than most other hardware in its

class. Oscilloscopes typically have over a dozen knobs and a few dozen buttons on

the front panel. With a good touch screen and a designed-for-touch user interface

(UI), those knobs and buttons can become unnecessary.

KEVSIGHT CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN

• Every button or knob on the front panel can be bypassed using the touchscreen.

• Pinch to Zoom• Waveform Zoom

• Touch Handles

• Zone Triggering• Annotations

• Floating Windows

SAMPLING RATE I MEMORY along with Award Winning 89600 VSA SW

The Z-Series of oscilloscopes offer 80GSa/s of sampling and the industry's deepest

memory at 2Gpts. By using Segmented Memory, the user is able to optimize the memory by only capturing radar pulses and ignoring dead time. This means more

data to analyze.

Keysight 89600 VSA SW is the gold standard for demodulation and analysis of today's most complex signals. It is an indispensable tool for designers working on

the forefront of radar technology.

Proprietary VSA SW enables user to make

Vector Signal measurements using their Oscilloscope.

Resulting Segmented Memory to Optimize the Number of Radar Pulses Captured • Basic 1/Q (Offset, Gain)

• Burst High Duty Cycle

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• Low Duty Cycle

• MIMO Radar Analysis

• Spectrum and Time Domain

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