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The Ins and Outs of Microwave
Signal Capture and Playback
Article Reprint
This article first appeared in the
August 2012 Military Microwave
Supplement of Microwave Journal.
Reprinted with kind permission from Microwave Journal.
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The Ins and Outs of
Microwave Signal
Capture and Playback
T he capture and playback of microwave
signals has a multitude of applications
in the evaluation of communications,
radar and electronic warfare systems. The
stimulus and analysis requirements of system
ing multiple functions at the same time. The
systems will need to automatically reconfigure
themselves depending on the stimulus at one
or more of their sensor ports. So, a benign or
static test stimulus that may be sufficient to
level testing differs from the functional testing verify a lower level subsystem will not be suf-
of the various sub-systems, boards and compo- ficient to fully exercise the dynamic operation
nents that make up the system for a number of the full system under all or even a few of its
of reasons. For instance, these types of sys- operating conditions.
tems are becoming increasingly multi-role and To provide an environment adequate for
multi-mode in nature, perhaps even perform- functional evaluation of the system, the test
stimulus must be long and unique