Military radar and EW systems must be exposed to signal environments as representative as possible to those they will ultimately experience, and this work should begin early in the design process when it’s most cost-effective. Only by meeting these two criteria can designers be reasonably sure that their final design will deliver its desired performance in the exhaustive (and expensive) range tests that follow.  The Giga-tronics Real-Time Threat Emulation System (TEmS) was created to make this achievable as a COTS-based bench-top emulation system. This modular approach allows the system to scale with individual modules rather than through addition of expensive stand-alone instruments.
This application note is intended to give an overview of the Giga-tronics AXIe-based Real-Time TEmS with comprehensive open-loop software and its unique capabilities for evaluation of EW and radar system. It also explains why Giga-tronics chose AXIe standard with customization in Zone 3 for its TEmS system.