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Analog to Information (A2I) Sensing for Software Defined Receivers

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
92635 		Program Year/Program:
2009 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
N092-106-0810 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Propagation Research Associates
1275 Kennestone Circle Suite 100 Marietta, GA -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2009
Title: Analog to Information (A2I) Sensing for Software Defined Receivers
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N68936-09-C-0127
Award Amount: $80,000.00
 

Abstract:

Propagation Research Associates, Inc., (PRA) proposes to design a receiver that will significantly reduce the sample rate required for a pulsed-Doppler EW sensing application using Compressive Sensing (CS) technology. The PRA Adaptive CS receiver will provide a compression in information space that will be sufficient to characterize multiple pulsed-Doppler waveforms accurately over a relatively large frequency band of interest. A pulsed-Doppler waveform can generally be characterized by a few parameters such as signal frequency, pulse width, pulse repetition frequency, dwell time, and bandwidth. The CS receiver will sample a number of channels (8) at the information rate required to determine the waveform parameters of interest instead of the Nyquist rate. By sampling at the information rate, the Analog-to-Digital Converter sample rates will be reduced by a factor of 50 to 1. An additional signal reconstruction channel (9th channel) will designed that can adapt to the output of the CS receiver to minimize the ADC sample rate. PRA will simulate the CS receiver and demonstrate its capability to (1) characterize pulsed-Doppler waveforms with varying pulse parameters, and (2) reconstruct the signal with minimal ADC sampling.

Principal Investigator:

E. Holder
Principal Research Scient
6783843402
jeff.holder@pra-corp.com

Business Contact:

Susan Dugas
Vice President
6783843401
contracts@pra-corp.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

PROPAGATION RESEARCH ASSOC.
1275 Kennestone Circle Suite 100 Marietta, GA 30066

EIN/Tax ID: 582611610
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No