DRFM requirements demand innovative technology
Abstract
In the context of the operation of emerging electronic countermeasures (ECM) jamming systems, a coherent means of capturing a received threat waveform is needed. The present paper is concerned with digital RF memory (DRFM) technology, which can be used to satisfy the involved requirements, taking into account high-performance multibit systems currently under development. System-driven requirements are considered along with a DRFM design implementation sampler/digitizer, Mux/Demux and memory, and packaging. It is pointed out that one of the most promising approaches for DRFM packaging involves surface mount technology (SMT). The development of low power and highspeed GaAs memory will provide DRFM designers with alternative options to the solution of power dissipation problems.
- Publication:
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Microwave Journal
- Pub Date:
- February 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986MiJo...29...91W
- Keywords:
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- Digital Techniques;
- Electronic Countermeasures;
- Memory (Computers);
- Microelectronics;
- Radio Frequencies;
- Cmos;
- Electronic Packaging;
- Field Effect Transistors;
- Gallium Arsenides;
- Hardware;
- Integrated Circuits;
- Silicon Transistors;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering