Engineering capabilities

Receiver-side work for acquiring and conditioning signals before digital processing.

• RF signal acquisition
• RF signal conditioning
• Multi-channel receiver architectures
• Signal detection
• Frequency analysis

Multi-channel direction-finding research and prototypes, with calibration and angle estimation close to the data path.

• Multi-channel phase-based techniques
• Amplitude and phase calibration
• Angle estimation
• Real-time FPGA processing of DF observables

Time-difference-of-arrival work: keeping channels in time, estimating delays, and turning delays into a position hypothesis.

• Time synchronization
• Cross-correlation
• GCC-PHAT
• TDOA estimation
• Multilateration and localization
• FPGA acceleration of correlation-heavy stages

Programmable logic where sample rates, determinism or channel count make a software-only path awkward. Development is in VHDL. Early trials can run on a ZedBoard (Zynq-7000) before a custom board.

Software-defined radio architectures for programmable RF and digital signal processing, used to explore waveforms and as a bridge to a later FPGA implementation.

Integration of FPGA, processor and RF: data movement, control, timing, and the software that configures the hardware. On a ZedBoard, the ARM processing system handles control while programmable logic holds the sample path.

Engineering and prototyping of advanced electronic systems intended for demanding environments. This is a domain of work, not a claim of fielded systems or government supply.

Digital signal processing used across the other capabilities.

• Digital signal processing
• Synchronization
• Detection
• Correlation
• Estimation