Phased-Array Radar Systems Engineering Bootcamp Courses

A phased array antenna is an array antenna whose single radiators can be fed with different phase shifts.

What this means is that the common antenna pattern can be steered electronically. The electronic steering is much more flexible and requires less maintenance than the mechanical steering of the antenna.

In recent years, a proliferation of digital beamforming phased array technology has emerged. The technology has been spawned by both military and commercial applications, along with the rapid advancements in RF integration at the component level.

The objective of a digital beamforming phased array is the simultaneous generation of many antenna patterns for a single set of receiver data.

For years, engineers have been trying to eliminate the analog beamformer and produce an every element digital beamforming system. Now with new advances in technology, this is doable at the L- and S-band. At higher frequencies, size and power constraints often still necessitate some level of analog beamforming. However, the quest remains to approach near elemental digital beamforming, which places significant demands on the waveform generators and receivers.

While the beamforming challenges place demands on the waveform generators and receivers to reduce size and power, there is a simultaneous demand to increase bandwidth for most system applications.

Digital beamforming relies on the coherent addition of the distributed waveform generator and receiver channels. This places additional challenges on both synchronization of the many channels and system allocations of noise contributions.

Phased-array radar systems have several advantages over single antenna radar systems, such as:

• It has the ability to provide a highly movable and agile beam under computer control.
• It has multifunctional operation through the emission of several beams simultaneously.
• The system remains operational even with errors and faults in a few areas.

Want to know more about phased-array radar systems? Tonex offers Phased-Array Radar Systems Engineering Bootcamp, a 3-day course covering phased array radar principles, latest technological developments, software, system analysis, requirement, architecture, design and operation.

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