Salient_Characteristics.docx

SUBSYSTEM TO NRL’S TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has a requirement for the following pieces of equipment to be integrated into a Tactical Communications System (TCS). The specifications below shall be met in order to be implemented seamlessly with a pre-existing Tecore man-pack LTE eNodeB system. For responses to the RFI, please provide scientific backup that the product offered is fully interoperable with NRL’s man-pack.

Advanced Laboratory Real-Time Signal Analyzer

· Frequency Range 16 KHz to 26.5 GHz

· Acquisition Bandwidth 800 MHz

· Streaming data to RAID memory & 40 GigE

· More than 120 minutes record time in RAID memory

· Support for IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/j/n/p measurements/analysis

· Support for LTE Downlink measurements/analysis

· Support for flexible OFDM analysis

· Support for Pulse Analysis to work with MDO-4104C MDO

· Signal Survey & Classification support

· Modulation analysis to work with MDO-4104C MDO

· Support for advanced triggers (Frequency Mask, Density)

· Must be able to directly measure RF channel energy for all possible waveforms.

· Must support and must be fully interoperable with NRL's existing Tecore LTE equipment Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG)

· Create arbitrary waveforms based on user specifications

· Analog Bandwidth: 13.5 GHz

· 2 channels with 10-bit vertical resolution up to 25 Gs/s

· Create digitally modulated signals with multiple carrier groups

· Support for sequencing

· Support for 8 Gs/s sample rate on both channels

· Must USB device port which also can support GPIB (conforming to IEEE 488.1, and compatible with IEEE-488.2 and SCPI-1999.0)

· Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) 10/100/1000baseT interface via RJ-45 connector

· eSATA interface

· Able to import from AWG, AWGX, WFMX, RFD, SXD, WFM, PAT, IQT, TIQ, ISF, TXT, SEQ, SEQX, and MATLAB file formats

· Able to export Text (TXT) and Extended Waveform (WFMX) file formats

· Must support and must be fully interoperable with NRL's existing Tecore LTE equipment

Field Real-Time Signal Analyzer with Extreme Portability

· Small lightweight hand-held size and light weight, so easy to carry in the field.

· Real-time signal analyzer supporting USB interface

· Frequency Range: 9 KHz to 6.2 GHz

· Instantaneous Bandwidth: 40 MHz

· Minimum signal duration as short as 27 μsec will be captured

· Supports MATLAB Instrument Driver

· Includes software application supports capture/analysis of 27 modulation types including 16/32/64/256 QAM, QPSK, O-QPSK, GMSK, FSK, APSK

· Must support and must be fully interoperable with NRL's existing Tecore LTE equipment Advanced Field Real-Time Signal Analyzer

· Frequency Range: 9 KHz to 18 GHz

· Instantaneous Bandwidth: 40 MHz

· Sweep Rates up to 70 GHz/sec

· Must include Windows-based signal analysis application supporting capture/analysis of 27 modulation types including 16/32/64/256 QAM, QPSK, O-QPSK, GMSK, FSK, APSK

· Must support and must be fully interoperable with NRL's existing Tecore LTE equipment Mixed Domain Oscilloscope

· Supports 4 channels at 1 GHz each

· Record length of 20 minutes on each channel

· Supports up to 5 GS/second

· Includes Arbitrary Function Generator capability with:

· 13 Pre-defined waveforms

· 50 MHz waveform generation

· 128 k arbitrary generator record length

· 250 MS/s arbitrary generator sample rate

· Includes Windows-based signal analysis software with live link to MDO unit

· Must support and must be fully interoperable with NRL's existing Tecore LTE equipment Vector Network Analyzer

· Frequency Range: 100 KHz to 6 GHz

· Dynamic Range greater than 122 dB

· Output Power from -50 dBm to +7 dBm

· RMS trace noise less than 0.008 dB

· Full 2-port 2-path S-parameter measurement (S11, S21, S12, S22)

· Supports Microsoft Windows & existing NI LabView software application

· Must support and must be fully interoperable with NRL's existing Tecore LTE equipment Portable Graphical Sampling Multimeter

· Small size and weight to ensure this handheld device easy to use in the field

· Maximum Resolution: 7.5 digits

· Supports digitizing rate up to 1MS/s

· Stores up to 11 M readings

· Supports GPIB/IEEE-488.1, USB 2.0, and 10/100baseT Ethernet interfaces.

· Must support and must be fully interoperable with NRL's existing Tecore LTE equipment Real-Time Signal Analyzer

· Frequency Range: 1 Hz to 26.5 GHz

· Acquisition Bandwidth: 165 MHz with HDR

· Acquisition Memory: 4 GBytes

· Minimum Event Duration: 2.7 us

· Supports digital I&Q output and Zero-Span analog output

· Supports Microsoft Windows version 10 Enterprise Edition

· Supports removable solid-state disk (SDD) drive

· Includes EMI pre-compliance/troubleshooting software

· Must support and must be fully interoperable with NRL's existing Tecore LTE equipment Signal Capture & Analysis Software

· Works with & supports above USB Real-Time Signal Analyzers

· Enables acquisition bandwidths up to 1000 MHz

· Enables measurement and recording with 2 USB RTSAs simultaneously

· Controls instruments via software

· Pulse analysis calculates start/stop time, average/peak power, pulse duration, Pulse Repetition Interval (PRI) and start/stop frequencies on up to 2M pulses

· Supports exporting Pulse analysis results into PDW file format.

· FFT overlap and speed controls optimize between highest probability of intercept vs. analysis time

· Supports exporting areas of interest to .XDAT, .SIQ or .TIQ file formats

· Compatible with Microsoft Windows computers.

· Must support and must be fully interoperable with NRL's existing Tecore LTE equipment