Low SWAP Multifunctional Electronic Warfare System Development

"With today’s increasingly sophisticated threats in the global defense battlefield and the proliferation of Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD), technology must rise to meet the challenge of complex missions – particularly for those operating across the electromagnetic spectrum. These missions call for ‘smart’ systems that address multiple threats and perform simultaneous functions, meaning that they need to be adaptive, multifunctional and operate on any platform (whether in the air, at sea, on the ground or unmanned) – all under reduced size, weight and power. New Electronic Warfare (EW) systems need to possess loosely coupled hardware and software architectures that can keep pace with commercial development cycles. Dated systems built with one specific purpose and function (e.g., one individual system for electronic attack; a different system for electronic support measures, etc.) typically have a large SWAP-C (Size, Weight, And Power, Cost) and increased system complexity which can limit mission effectiveness, slow down critical mission turnaround time and make it harder to keep pace with new threats. In this webinar we will review small form factor multifunction EW system design. The discussion will include modular and scalable hardware and software design trades, simulation and performance evaluation. New model-based design workflows will be discussed that enable functional allocation trades to GPUs/FPGAs/Processors through simulation. The discussion will conclude with system performance evaluation and deployment approaches using hardware in the loop simulation and prototype hardware.