For more than 30 years, TSC has been building and successfully delivering excellent Radar Environmental Simulators (RES) to a wide-variety of customers.

TSC’s latest RES technology is PC-based with DSP/FPGA-based signal generation hardware.  This system is designed to generate realistic target, clutter, and jamming signal inputs to a radar under test. The test signals are customized for the specific radar and can be injected as RF, IF, or digitally, depending on customer needs. TSC’s radar simulators are designed to be as capable, but less complex and, therefore, less expensive than competing products. TSC’s system uses a LabVIEW interface for ease of operation.

Pictured above is the Radar Evaluation Tool (RET) developed for the Navy’s SPS-49 radar that includes a PC-based RES. This portable diagnostic tool allows the Navy to monitor and troubleshoot radar performance in a laboratory or field environment. Like a RES, it provides the capability to inject simulated targets and clutter into the radar’s RF receiver; however, it has additional hardware and software that allow it to extract raw and processed data from various points along the SPS-49 processing chain. Data can be collected and stored for post mission analysis.

In addition to injection simulators, TSC has developed X, S, L, & C band free-space radar simulators that provide end-to-end radar system testing.  The repeater, pictured on the right was configured to support the COBRA artillery locating radar developed by the European consortium, EuroArt.  Standing off approximately 100 meters from the radar antenna and without any physical connections to the radar, a linear array of antennas and associated electronics captures the radar’s transmitted pulse, and returns a time and spatially delayed, Doppler-modified pulse to the radar, simulating trajectories for mortar and artillery shells.  TSC’s free space simulators have been successfully used for radar development and testing and have proven to be extremely cost effective as a substitute for a live-fire test during production-line acceptance testing.

For more information please contact Bernard Rees (bernard.rees@tsc.com) or Eric Wilen (eric.wilen@tsc.com) via email or phone at (310) 954-2200.”