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Software-defined, reconfigurable, plug-and-play transceiver
Title: Senior Engineer
Phone: (301) 294-5254
Email: abhat@i-a-i.com
Title: Director, Contracts and Propsals
Phone: (301) 294-5221
Email: mjames@i-a-i.com
Intelligent Automation Inc, proposes to develop a software defined Plug-and-Play (PNP) transceiver capable of digitally synthesizing arbitrary waveforms. A digital approach provides excellent control over amplitude, phase and frequency, which is critical for phase-array radar implementation. High-speed Digital-to-analog and Analog-to-Digital converters interfaced with modern FPGA technology have simplified digitally synthesized waveform generator and wideband receiver designs. The proposed technique will leverage IAIfs vast experience in Software Defined Radio (SDR) and RF hardware design. Our innovation focuses on implementing monolithic waveform generator and integrated receiver (will be referred to as gTransceiverh throughout the proposal) using digital techniques and minimizing the number of analog components. The form-factor of such a transceiver will be comparable to a typical handheld mobile device (cell phones, PDAfs). An X-band front can be easily integrated with this waveform generator module using MMIC components, thus making it a complete single channel radar transceiver, with plug-and-play capability. A software-defined reconfigurable transceiver has the potential to greatly improve the performance and efficiency PNP backplanes for phase-array radar applications. BENEFIT: The proposed technology is built upon the software defined radio expertise of IAI. The most promising commercial applications outside of Air Force are: EArbitrary wideband waveform synthesizer EReconfigurable radar transceiver with multi-mode capabilities ECognitive radios
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