RADIO PHYSICS AND RADIO ASTRONOMY

The experience of development of a digital receiver/pulse analyzer is described. The measuring set has a modular structure and consists of three functionally independent systems: Radio Frequency Tuner, Digital Pulse Analyzer, and Data Record and Storage System. The ultra-wideband Tuner operates within 0.4 to 18 GHz. The high performance Pulse Analyzer detects up to 2 million pulses per second in real time. The Data Recording System is capable of recording raw data and results of processing for as long as 40 min at the rate of up to 3 GB/s. This measuring set is perfectly suitable for usage in radiolocation, radioastronomy, spectroscopy, in the systems for radioemission monitoring and in within the measuring-calibrating equipment.

Key words: wideband digital receiver, digital signal processing, time-and-frequency analysis

Manuscript submitted 17.04.2015

Radio phys. radio astron. 2015, 20(2): 168-179

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