Digital Techniques for Wideband Receivers (Radar, Sonar and Navigation)
This newly updated, second edition of Digital Techniques for Wideband Receivers is a current, comprehensive design guide for your digital processing work with today's complex receiver systems. Brand new material brings you up-to-date with the latest information on wideband electronic warfare receivers, the ADC testing procedure, frequency channelization and decoding schemes, and the operation of monobit receivers. The book shows you how to effectively evaluate ADCs, offers insight on building electronic warfare receivers, and describes zero crossing techniques that are critical to new receiver design. From fundamental concepts and procedures to recent technology advances in digital receivers, you get practical solutions to all your demanding wideband receiver problems. This hands-on reference is packed with 1,103 equations and 315 illustrations that support key topics covered throughout the book.
Why Read This Book
You will get a practical, system-focused guide to designing and evaluating modern wideband receivers, with hands-on procedures for ADC testing, channelization, decoding, and monobit/zero-crossing techniques. The book packs engineering tradeoffs, test methods, and real-world receiver design examples that make it immediately useful for solving complex EW, radar, and communications receiver problems.
Who Will Benefit
Practicing RF/DSP engineers and system designers working on wideband receivers, electronic warfare, radar, or communications who need practical methods to evaluate ADCs, build digital channelizers, and implement receiver algorithms.
Level: Advanced — Prerequisites: Solid fundamentals in signals and systems, digital signal processing (sampling, FFTs, filter design), basic communications/radar concepts, and familiarity with MATLAB or equivalent analysis tools.
Key Takeaways
- Evaluate ADCs for wideband front ends and apply practical ADC test procedures to quantify performance for receiver systems.
- Design and implement digital frequency channelization and channel-decode schemes suitable for wideband EW and communications receivers.
- Apply FFT-based spectral analysis and windowing techniques to wideband signal monitoring and real-time spectrum processing.
- Implement zero-crossing and monobit receiver techniques and understand their tradeoffs in sensitivity and complexity.
- Design digital filters, polyphase filter banks, and adaptive filters to mitigate interference and optimize receiver selectivity.
- Use statistical signal processing and detection methods to analyze receiver performance and improve signal extraction in contested environments.
Topics Covered
- 1. Introduction to Wideband Receiver Architectures
- 2. DSP Fundamentals for Wideband Systems (sampling, aliasing, quantization)
- 3. ADCs: Technologies, Specifications, and Performance Metrics
- 4. ADC Test Procedures and Characterization for Wideband Receivers
- 5. Frequency Channelization: Digital Downconversion and Polyphase Filter Banks
- 6. FFTs, Spectral Analysis, and Real-Time Spectral Processing
- 7. Digital Filter Design for Wideband and Multirate Systems
- 8. Monobit Receivers, Zero-Crossing Techniques, and Low-Resolution Architectures
- 9. Adaptive Filtering, Interference Cancellation, and AGC Considerations
- 10. Decoding Schemes, Communications Signal Processing, and EW Use Cases
- 11. Statistical Signal Processing, Detection, and Performance Analysis
- 12. Implementation Considerations: FPGAs, DSPs, and System Integration
- 13. Case Studies, Test Examples, and Practical Design Recipes
- Appendices: Mathematical Tools, Test Equipment Procedures, Reference Tables
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How It Compares
Tsui is more applied to wideband receiver engineering and EW-specific issues than Lyons' 'Understanding Digital Signal Processing', and compared with Richards' 'Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing' it emphasizes receiver front-ends, ADC testing and digital channelization rather than radar waveform/target processing.
