Wired Signal Time-Stamping with a Software-Defined Radio Telemetry Receiver

Abstract

Over the last several years the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has developed a software-defined radio (SDR) telemetry receiver. Research has been published on the receiver design, real-time decryption, and layered protocol. This technical note presents an additional capability, wired signal time-stamping. During field experiments, there are multiple components or external events that must be related to the telemetry data. By time-stamping triggers and indicators, all of the available data sources can be synchronized. After detailing the time-stamping design, results of a successful field experiment are presented. With the addition of wired signal time-stamping, ARLs SDR telemetry receiver has gained another valuable capability that will allow convenient and inexpensive testing independent of military range instrumentation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1089165

Entities

People

  • Edward F. Bukowski
  • Michael L. Don
  • Thomas G. Brown

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Central Processing Units
  • Circuit Boards
  • Computers
  • Data Rate
  • Diagrams
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Graphical User Interface
  • High Resolution
  • Instrumentation
  • Low Resolution
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Printed Circuits
  • Radio Telemetry
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Telemetry

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  • Computer Networking
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.