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Analog to Information (A2I) Sensing for Software Defined Receivers

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68936-10-C-0121
Agency Tracking Number: N092-106-0237
Amount: $999,954.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N092-106
Solicitation Number: 2009.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2009
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-07-22
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2013-01-03
Small Business Information
650 5th Street Suite 505
San Francisco, CA -
United States
DUNS: 119301831
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Dave Pechner
 Principal Investigator
 (408) 781-7416
 d.pechner@saphotonics.com
Business Contact
 Andrea Singewald
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (970) 921-3401
Email: a.singewald@saphotonics.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Compressive sensing is based on the notion that the information content of a signal may be much less than its instantaneous bandwidth, and that this signal “sparseness” can be exploited directly during the sensing operation. When applied to the sampling of pulsed Radar signals, compressive sensing can allow Radar signals to be sampled below (possibly well below) the Nyquist rate, allowing for a very small yet flexible software defined Radar Warning Receiver (RWR). This compressive based RWR can detect and parameterize unknown received radar signals over the frequency range from 0.1-20 GHz and can provide parameter estimation of the Received power, Carrier Frequency, PRF, and Pulse Width. In this Phase II we will develop a prototype compressive based RWR in order to validate its performance against simulated radar signals.

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