Tampa Microwave, a manufacturer of RF and microwave spectrum analysers, has announced the availability of the RV3500 Remote Signals Intelligence System. The RV3500 combines high-speed signal acquisition, signal classification, multiple software defined radio receivers, and other functionality in a rugged, lightweight 1-RU form factor. Configurable for specific mission requirements, this new platform provides rapid high frequency (HF) band spectrum sweeps, allows proprietary interface for analyser control and data display, and enables multiple users to remotely and simultaneously view different portions of the spectrum.
Designed with FFT-based sweeps and multiple parallel processing units, the RV3500 features speeds up to 50 GHz/sec within the instantaneous stare bandwidth (ISB). The system is capable of achieving sweep speeds up to 7.5 GHz/sec, as well as the entire span, in apx 0.5 sec. The rapid energy detection facilitates the use of lower RBWs to separate tightly grouped signals without sacrificing speed, and ensures signals of interest are never missed.
Software defined and radio gives the RV3500 the power and versatility of most separate hand-off receivers in a significantly reduced size/weight package. It supports multiple channels and can hand off signals within the ISB to any Software Defined Radio for demodulation and recording. Users can access up to 16 streams of real-time, streaming digital audio via TCP/IP from one or multiple authorised PCs around the world.
SmartCells are intelligent hardware processing modules that can be added to any system. Each SmartCell has the ability to perform one of several functions depending on the software selected. For example, up to four Software Defined Radios can be loaded into any one SmartCell, allowing four channels of simultaneous signal analysis. Or, a SmartCell may be loaded with software to make it function as a Rapid Energy Detector. Up to seven SmartCells may be added to each system, and the software may be dynamically loaded and changed as needed under software control.
SmartCells can be dynamically configured for each mission’s critical needs and multiple embedded SmartCells can be configured to form a complete signal intelligence system. SmartCells can support simultaneous demodulation of multiple radio channels, or can achieve increased energy detection speeds.
