Sonar
Data acquisition, recording and receiver
systems from DSPCon help military, government and commercial organizations extract
mission-critical information out of their sonar systems. Featuring
centralized data acquisition, data streaming and logging from numerous channels
at extremely high record and playback rates, DSPCon solutions are utilized by test
ranges, surface vessels, fixed and rotary wing aircraft for submarine detection
and surveillance; outputting critical speed and depth data to weapon and combat
systems; and providing accurate measurement of ocean temperatures and salinity for
climatology and oceanography studies.
Sonobuoy Radio Receivers:
DSPCon's specialized expertise in sonobuoy data processing is based on years of
supplying advanced data acquisition and receiver systems with customized processing
and packaging options to leading defense clients and prime contractors including
the U.S. Navy, the Australian Navy and Lockheed Martin, to name just a few. Our
unique design approach is predicated on the premise that less is more. Less hardware,
less weight and far fewer parts than competitive offerings with significant Size,
Weight and Power (SWaP) advantages thanks to our advanced architecture.
DSPCon systems are based on true software defined radio technologies, which means
they are easily reconfigured when waveforms become more complex and can receive
any combination of analog and digital sonobuoy radio signals with the same hardware,
and without the need to replace receiver cards or circuitry. And, because our design
approach is software-based, our systems can more readily accommodate future requirements
including additional encoding, encryption and modulation schemes, thereby resulting
in greater overall economies. With fewer parts than competitive systems, DSPCon
receiver solutions for sonobuoy signal processing feature much higher mean time
between failure (MTBF) rates, greater spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) performance,
reduced weight and optimized footprints for better onboard performance and overall
efficiencies.
Features:
- Based on commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS), ruggedized hardware to resist obsolescence
- Architecture can be expanded indefinitely in terms of channel count
- Flexible packaging
- Superior dynamic range facilitates receipt of close and distant transmitter signals
simultaneously
- Fully integrated with optional turn-key detection/tracking graphical software
- Ideal for helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, test ranges and surface vessels
- SWAP-optimized. Uses DSPCon architecture to provide lowest size, weight and power
for given capacity of any available solution
Summarized Digital Sonobuoy Receiver Specifications:
- Control: Ethernet or Mil-Std-
- Channel Count: Multiples of 16 (16, 32, 48)
- Input Frequency: 136-174 MHz
- AIS Blocking Filter: (160.9375-162.4375 MHz) & UHF Uplink Filter (for 291.4 MHz)
- Distortion: .02% Distortion from 2 Hz to 5 kHz, and .1% from 5 kHz to 60 kHz
- Demodulation Schemes: FM, FSK, PSK, GMSK (GQPSK)
- SFDR: >80dB (Excluding Harmonic Spurs)
- SNR: > 72 dB
- Processing Capability: 1.3 GHz Power PC Plus Virtex-2 per 16 channels
- Signal Support: ESM, Voice, DICASS & Time Code
- Output: Ethernet, 1553 and/or Analog Out
- Stanag 4283 Output Data Specification Compliance
Sonar Solutions: