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Radar/EW

FPGAs fuel military electronic warfare, cognitive radio, and radar signal processing innovation - Story

October 31, 2016
Demand for increased signal-processing performance continues to be insatiable among military radar, electronic warfare (EW), and communications integrator especially as the latter two move into cognitive applications. In this Q&A with Rodger Hosking, Vice President and Co-founder of Pentek in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, he discusses how embedded signal-processing can enable cognitive EW and cognitive radio, how FPGAs have revolutionized embedded computing, and how the defense industry is competing for young engineering talent with the behemoths of the commercial world. Edited excerpts follow.
Radar/EW

Radar and software interface supports VITA 49.0 specifications - Product

October 24, 2016
Model 71664 is a member of Pentek?s Cobalt family of XMC modules based on the Xilinx Virtex-6 field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Designed as a multichannel, high-speed data converter, it uses programmable digital downconverters (DDCs) and its PCIExpress output supports the VITA 49...