When you need to design or maintain a system for gathering parametric performance data on aircraft, projectiles, missiles, satellites and materials, a high performance instrumentation radar configuration is often required. If you are employing pulse-Doppler, wideband SAR, broadband pulses or other radar techniques, the workhorse of the system is usually a high speed frequency synthesizer.
Until recently high speed frequency synthesis utilized a technique called Direct Synthesis, resulting in complex instrumentation with a high part count, ultimately leading to increased failure rates. The new Giga-tronics GT-ASG18A Advanced Signal Generator is a lower part count alternative offering comparable performance and control with legacy high speed frequency synthesizers, making it an ideal replacement in existing systems or as the platform for new system designs.
The GT-ASG18A is not only designed to be a direct replacement, it can take your measurements to a new level by incorporating a wide-band up-converter and multiple microwave coherent channel performance, allowing you to simplify your design and use multiple frequency and waveform techniques to improve measurement speed and accuracy.