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Keysight Technologies Solutions for Using a Model-Based Platform to Quickly and Effectively Test Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems Application Brief Modern Radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems operate in a variety of frequency bands with multi-emitter wideband signals and complex modulation schemes. They also use advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques to attack or avoid being attacked by enemy's EW systems. Because EW specifications are always adjusted based on the environment, today's designers require a solution for designing, verifying and testing their EW systems in an effective way. Problem EW systems operate in complex environments with multi-emitter input signals from radar, military and commercial communication systems, as well as different interferences, noise and clutter. EW receivers must monitor the multi-emitter signals over a wide frequency range. When clutter or interference is significant, received signals become even more complex. This complexity poses a number of challenges when designing and testing Radar and EW systems, especially when coupled with new signal generation and processing requirements, and the need to analyze different test cases. Other challenging tasks that engineers may encounter when developing Radar and EW systems include: reducing the time and cost to develop new systems, reducing the expense of testing and validation, and getting all legacy Intellectual Property (IP) point tools to work together with RF. Validating the performance of complex Radar and EW systems earlier/continuously, instead of waiting until final integration and test, can also be difficult. Addressing these challenges is critical ensuring the success of any Radar or EW system. Solution Dealing with these challenges at all stages of development requires a flexible wideband, model-based platform for designing, verifying and testing Radar and EW systems. The platform must be able to effectively model and simulate Radar and EW components and systems, and generate highly realistic scenarios for verification of transmitter and receiver performance. It must also be flexible enough to support interaction with a range of measurement instruments for hardware test and verification. One such platform that meets this criteria is Keysight Technologies' Radar and EW simulation and test platform (Figure 1). At the core of the platform is the SystemVue Electronic System Level (ESL) design software, which enables modeling and simulation of Radar and EW systems throughout the development process using pre-created templates. Multi-emitter signals ca