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Accession Number:
ADA621893
Title:
Spectrum Monitoring Using SpectrumAnalysis LabVIEW Software, Nanoceptors, and Various Digitizing Solutions
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. Jun-Jul 2014
Corporate Author:
ARMY RESEARCH LAB ADELPHI MD SENSORS AND ELECTRON DEVICES DIRECTORATE
Report Date:
2015-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
26.0
Abstract:
High-speed spectrum sensing is a key component in numerous radar applications and can be accomplished by using modern digitizers paired with radios. This effort uses a gallium-germanium GaGe 16-bit, 200-MSs Peripheral Component Interconnect Express PCIe digitizer for spectrum sensing. The digitizer rapidly captures 40-MHz-wide snapshots of the spectrum, which are first filtered and down-converted by a SI-8614 Nanoceptortrademark receiver and then processed using LabVIEW virtual instruments VIs, optimized to achieve near-continuous capture rates and less hardware intensive real-time monitoring. For optimal capture rates, I use a LabVIEW producer-consumer loop the producer loop quickly adds data to a queue captured from the digitizer and the consumer loop pulls data off the queue to process it at an often slower pace using CUDA to perform multi-channel fast Fourier transform FFT computations. Apart from wideband spectrum sensing, this hardware configuration is also useful for detecting nonlinear targets. A higher resolution digitizer, the NI PXI-5922, is integrated and used to measure harmonics as low as 130 dBm while maintaining the ability to capture higher power fundamental signals. The use of 24-bit high fidelity audio cards is investigated for viability as a low-cost, high resolution digitizing solution for similar narrowband applications.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
