Prototyping Advanced Military Radar Systems

Radar receiver design is seeing an increase in the number of digital tuning and digital signal processing (DSP) functions moved from back-end single-board computers into fixed front-end hardware logic. The front-end receivers have become much more complex and difficult to design. This results in two rising challenges for digital design engineers: prototyping and testing highly sophisticated receivers, and designing with limited budgets for both power and heat dissipation.