Addressing the Challenges of Radar and EW System Design and Test using a Model-Based Platform

Radar systems have come a long way since their introduction in the 1940’s, today encompassing a broad range of applications, ranging from supermarket door openers to highly complex shipboard phased-array fire-control radars. Modern systems require higher performance to work in today’s ever more complex Electronic Warfare (EW) environments, which include jamming and deception. As a result, EW systems must be properly designed to effectively attack Radar systems. Modern Radar and EW systems must also have the ability to reach out and touch the environments in which they operate, detect and characterize sources of electronic noise such as RF jamming or co-location antenna interference, and adapt the Radar’s performance accordingly to compensate for that interference. Moreover, EW specifications are always adjusted based on the environment. Because of these challenges, today’s designers require a solution for designing, verifying and testing their Radar and EW systems in an effective way.