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New or upgraded sonar systems for surface ships and submarines

Application

Back-End for any type of Active and Passive new or upgraded sonar system

• Active/Passive HMS and VDS for surface ship
• Passive Medium Frequency sonar for submarine
• Passive Ranging Sonar (PRS)
• Active or Passive Towed Array Sonar (TAS, ATAS)
• Flank Array Sonar

Features

• Commercial of the Shelf (COTS) hardware and software
• Standard Interfaces
• Open system architecture
• Ruggedized
• Low cost
• High reliability and maintainability
• Comprehensive library of sonar signal processing algorithms

Characteristics

Receiver Processor(RP)

• Several types of Aquisition cards:
• 32 A/D channels, 16 or 24 bits, with or without PGA
• 16 Channels A/D and 16 Channels D/A
• TAXI fiber-optic
• Several types of DSP cards based on TI C40 and C67 (in 99/Q1) and ICS-2200S/D
• Controller: HP743rt with HP-RT Operating System or 68040 with VX-Works Operating System
• Signal processing algorithm library
• Time and Frequency Domain north stabilized Beamformer
• Wideband and Narrowband Actice Energy detection
• Coherent Processing
• Full Space Doppler processing
• Transmit signal generation
• Energy and Cross-Correlation Passive detection
• Passive Ranging
• Active and Passive automatic tracking
• TMA
• DEMON and LOFAR detection and analysis
• Active classification (Doppler and Aspect Angle)
• Audio processing
• Built In Training Simulator
• Sonar Performance Prediction System (SPPS) as detection aid.

Operator Console(OC)

• Unix / Windows ruggedized workstation with audio card
• Two 20” Flat Panel tiltable monitors
• Activation Devices: Keyboard, Trackball, Touch Screen, Joy Stick
• Operability based on X-Windows / Windows and MOTIF
• Many types of display formats: A-Scan, B-Scan, PPI, BTR, Energy envelope (vs. bearing), Spectrum, - LOFAR/DEMON gram, FRAZ, Ray ..Path, Detection contours, tactical picture, and more
• Standard interface to RP (Ethernet or Fast Ethernet) for both video and audio signals

Ruggedized PC with COTS hardware and software Simulates Active and Passive target signals, Ambient noise and Reverberation at the RP input (after inverse beamforming) High accuracy of simulated parameters For end-to-end testing and performance monitoring

Enviromental

• Temperature: 0-50° C
• Humidity: 0-95%
• Shock: 30g, 11ms, half sin wave
• Vibration: MIL-STD-167