Digital enhancement of microwave component performance
Abstract
The authors review several areas in which microwave components and/or systems have been integrated with digital electronics to provide enhanced performance of the microwave hardware or functions which were previously unattainable. Several areas in which this combined microwave/digital technology is already being used or in which usage is proposed are discussed. Particular attention is given to the application of this combined technology to high-speed logic, measurement equipment, electronic countermeasures, computer-aided design, radars and adaptive systems, digital radio, and automated production testing. In addition, specific applications of digital enhancement to microwave an attenuator, a phase shifter, and oscillators are presented.
- Publication:
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1988 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988aeap.conf.....E
- Keywords:
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- Computer Aided Design;
- Digital Electronics;
- Electronic Countermeasures;
- Microwave Equipment;
- Radar Equipment;
- Automatic Gain Control;
- Gallium Arsenides;
- Microwave Oscillators;
- Performance;
- Phase Shift Circuits;
- Pulse Communication;
- Transfer Functions;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering