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High Frequency Design Defense Electronics Addressing the Challenges of Radar and EW System Design and Test using a Model-Based Platform By Dingqing Lu, Agilent Technologies Radar systems have come a long way since their introduction in the Today's designers require 1940's, today encompassing a broad range of applications, ranging from a solution for designing, supermarket door openers to highly complex shipboard phased-array verifying and testing their fire-control radars. Modern systems require higher performance to work Radar and EW systems in in today's ever more complex Electronic Warfare (EW) environments, an effective way. which include jamming and deception. As a result, EW systems must be properly designed to effectively attack Radar systems. Modern Radar and EW systems must also have the ability to reach out and touch the environments in which they operate, detect and characterize sources of electronic noise such as RF jamming or co-location antenna interference, and adapt the Radar's performance accordingly to compensate for that interference. Moreover, EW specifications are always adjusted based on the environment. Because of these challenges, today's designers require a solution for designing, verifying and testing their Radar and EW systems in an effective way. Challenges Radar and EW systems operate in increasingly complex spectral environments with multi- emitter input signals from Radar, military and commercial communication systems, as well as different interferences, noise and clutter. Even in an urban center, the airwaves may include countless wideband RF and microwave emitters--and therefore, potential interfer- ers--such as wireless communications infrastructure, wireless networking systems and civil- ian Radars. This complexity poses a number of challenges when developing Radar and EW systems, especially when coupled with new signal generation and processing requirements, and the need to analyze different test cases. For example, how does the engineer reduce the time and cost associated with developing these new systems, while also reducing the high cost of test- ing and validation? How do they get all legacy Intellectual Property (IP) point tools to work together with RF? And, how do they validate the p