摘要:
A compressive receiver for developing a series of time-based identifying pulses corresponding to discrete received signals having various frequencies within a predetermined band of surveillance. A multiple local oscillator function is included, effectively dividing the predetermined band of interest into small frequency increments, each of these local oscillator signals being coded by a pseudo-random coded sequence (bi-phase code) of maximal length. Each frequency increment thus developed is coded by this sequence delayed by one bit duration as compared to that applied to the local oscillator frequency immediately preceding it. A mixer receiving input signals in the band of interest, and also the multiple local oscillator signals thus generated and coded, has its output processed by a passive correlator which provides pulses at times determined by the frequencies extant in the input signal.
摘要:
A compressive or "microscan" signal processor adapted for the simultaneous measurement of multifrequency signal components which encompass a broad frequency spectrum. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the applied signals are processed through a mixer which is driven by a linear frequency versus time waveform sweep signal. The output from the mixer is applied to one input port of a nonlinear correlator, and a second input port of the correlator is supplied with a linear frequency versus time waveform signal whose slope is opposite from that of the sweep signal applied to the mixer. The output signal from the correlator comprises a series of pulses which are displaced in time as a function of the frequency of the corresponding portions of the applied signals, and whose amplitudes are representative of the relative energy distribution of the applied signals.