Multifunction Receiver-On Chip For Electronic Warfare Applications
First Claim
1. An electronic warfare receiver system light and small enough to be located on an unmanned aerial vehicle and having a power consumption minimized to maximize endurance, comprising:
- an array of antenna elements on said unmanned aerial vehicle;
a lightweight monolithic receiver-on-a-chip located at each antenna element;
fiber optic cables coupled at one end to the output of respective receivers-on-a-chip; and
,a processor coupled to the other ends of said fiber optic cables for processing the individual outputs of said receivers-on-a-chip.
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Abstract
What is provided is a receiver-on-a-chip comprising a monolithic integrated circuit that reduces the receiver to a cigarette-pack-sized assembly mountable directly at an antenna element, with a much-increased operational bandwidth and instantaneous bandwidth, increased dynamic range and with a two-order-of-magnitude decrease in size and weight. Moreover, because of the elimination of all of the I/O drivers and attendant circuitry, power consumption is reduced by two-thirds, whereas the mean time before failure is increased to 10,000 hours due to the robustness of the monolithic integrated circuit and use of fiber optics.
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1. An electronic warfare receiver system light and small enough to be located on an unmanned aerial vehicle and having a power consumption minimized to maximize endurance, comprising:
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an array of antenna elements on said unmanned aerial vehicle; a lightweight monolithic receiver-on-a-chip located at each antenna element; fiber optic cables coupled at one end to the output of respective receivers-on-a-chip; and
,a processor coupled to the other ends of said fiber optic cables for processing the individual outputs of said receivers-on-a-chip. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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- 5. A broadband receiver-on-a-chip manufactured in a monolithic process using silicon-germanium transistor technology so as to produce transistor switching speeds in excess of 100 GHz to effectuate a 0.03 GHz to 18 GHz operational bandwidth.
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