Digital Techniques for Wideband Receivers (Radar, Sonar and Navigation)
Digital Techniques for Wideband Receivers is widely recognized as the definitive design guide on digital processing work with today’s complex receiver systems. This third edition brings readers up-to-date with the latest information on wideband electronic warfare receivers, and includes new chapters on the detection of FM and BPSK radar signals, analog-to-information, time-reversal filter, monobit receivers with improved instantaneous dynamic range and it offers insights on building electronic warfare receivers. From fundamental concepts and procedures, to recent technology advances in digital receivers, readers get practical solutions to important wideband receiver problems.
This book has been updated with many of the latest concepts to help users design receivers that are relevant for today’s electronic warfare systems. It will be an ideal reference for defense digital signal processing engineers, in government and industry.
Why Read This Book
You will learn practical, up-to-date methods for designing and implementing digital processing in complex wideband receivers—covering electronic warfare, radar, and communications applications. The book blends rigorous theory with hands‑on algorithms, worked design examples, and modern topics such as analog‑to‑information, monobit receivers, and time‑reversal filters so you can turn concepts into deployable receiver subsystems.
Who Will Benefit
Experienced signal‑processing and RF engineers, system designers, and graduate students working on electronic warfare, radar, or wideband communications who need practical DSP techniques for receiver design.
Level: Advanced — Prerequisites: Undergraduate signals and systems and basic DSP; familiarity with sampling theory, probability/detection basics, and RF front‑end concepts; experience with MATLAB or a programming language for algorithm development.
Key Takeaways
- Design digital wideband receiver architectures and select sampling/ADC strategies for high instantaneous bandwidths.
- Implement and optimize digital filters, multirate processing, and FFT‑based spectral analysis for real‑time receiver chains.
- Detect and process common radar and communication waveforms (including FM and BPSK) using practical detection and estimation algorithms.
- Apply modern techniques such as analog‑to‑information (compressive sampling), time‑reversal filters, and monobit receiver concepts to improve performance and dynamic range.
- Use adaptive filtering and statistical signal processing methods for interference mitigation, signal detection, and parameter estimation.
- Translate algorithms to real platforms: develop fixed‑point, FPGA/DSP, and SDR implementations and validate them with measurement and simulation tools.
Topics Covered
- Introduction and wideband receiver overview
- Sampling theory, ADCs, and front‑end considerations for wideband systems
- Multirate processing, decimation, and channelization
- Digital filter design for wideband receivers (FIR/IIR and implementation issues)
- FFT, spectral analysis, and detection in the frequency domain
- Time‑frequency methods and wavelets for transient and nonstationary signals
- Adaptive filtering, interference cancellation, and beamforming
- Statistical signal processing, estimation, and detection theory for receivers
- Detection of FM and BPSK radar signals (new material)
- Analog‑to‑information (compressive sampling) and sub‑Nyquist techniques (new)
- Monobit receivers, time‑reversal filters, and improved instantaneous dynamic range (new)
- Implementation considerations: fixed‑point, FPGA/DSP, SDR platforms and real‑time constraints
- Design examples, case studies, and guidelines for building electronic warfare receivers
- Appendices: mathematical tools, reference algorithms, and measurement procedures
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How It Compares
Compared with Richards' Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing (which emphasizes radar theory and detection), Tsui focuses on practical digital receiver design for wideband EW and communications; compared with Software‑Defined Radio for Engineers, Tsui provides deeper treatment of EW/receiver algorithms and advanced topics like analog‑to‑information and monobit receivers.
