Advanced Techniques For Digital Receivers » (BK&CD-ROM)

Phillip E. Pace is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and was previously a design specialist with General Dynamics Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and his M.S.E.E. from Ohio University. He is a senior member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, a member of SPIE, and chairman of the U.S. Navy's Threat Simulator Validation Working Group.

Featuring an equal balance of theory and practical application, this new book is the first to examine the use of electro-optic architectures and high-resolution encoding techniques that directly digitize wideband signals in a digital receiver. It explains new symmetrical number system (SNS) signal processing techniques you can easily apply to designs using symmetrical folding waveforms, providing you a high-performance framework for getting optimum results from such systems.

You are presented with a comprehensive review of digital radio frequency memories, including amplitude and phase-sampling designs, allowing you to apply these techniques to a new inverse synthetic aperture radar counter-targeting processor. What's more, you get a detailed description of various sampling methods — including undersampling, coherent sampling, oversampling, and non-uniform sampling — that can be used to quantify difficult receiver performance problems — such as jitter, ambiguity resolution, inband quantization noise, and skirting.

With this handy source, you can solve problems related to...

> High-resolution digital antennas using mode-locked lasers and electro-optics

> Wideband undersampling receiver design using currently configured hardware

> High resolution phase sampled interferometer antenna systems for wideband direction finding

> High-resolution over-sampling of VHF signals

Emphasizing GPS, satellite, electronic warfare, radar, and ultra-wideband radar receivers, this book is essential for digital receiver, signal converter, and digital antenna design engineers and others interested in the application ofelectro-optics and superconductivity to the signal conversion problem. Plus, you get up-to-date information on field programmable gate array techniques (FPGA), analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), and sigma-delta modulators and superconductor ADCs.

Software Included! Provides software and computer simulations of architectures discussed in the book. System Requirements: Pentium PC running Windows 95 or better. 256K RAM, 50MB hard disk space, MatLab 5.3 and Simulink 3.0.

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Presents the new electronic, electro-optic, and superconductor digitization methods currently being investigated in the field, as well as high-resolution, symmetrical number system techniques that can be applied to a variety of receiver components, architectures, and receiver subsystems. Providing balanced coverage of both theory and practical circuit design techniques, the volume is suitable for a senior undergraduate or first-year graduate level electrical engineering course in high-speed signal conversion and encoding techniques. Prerequisites should include at least senior level academic experience in engineering and mathematics and the ability to write and run computer programs. Includes a disk with MATLAB/IMULINK programs for use with the problem exercises. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents: Fundamentals of Signals and Systems. Receiver Design and Technology. Circuit Components for Signal Conversion. Dynamic Performance Parameters. High Performance Converter Architectures. Oversampling Sigma-Delta Converters. Digital Radio Frequency Memories. High-Resolution Encoding Techniques. Undersampling DFT Receivers. Phase Sampled DF Antennas.