en.Wedoany.com Reported - Signal Hound has introduced a new licensed Spike software measurement toolkit designed to provide comprehensive pulse and radar signal analysis for commercial and defense applications. Delivered as a licensed option for Spike, the toolkit is compatible with the full range of Signal Hound broadband receivers, including the PCR4200 multi-channel receiver, enabling system designers and field users to perform tasks such as radar system testing, transmitter troubleshooting, transient and spurious analysis, and ELINT (Electronic Intelligence).
AJ Montgomery, Senior Software Engineer at Signal Hound, stated that engineers building and validating radar and pulse systems require tools that are fast, reliable, and suitable for both laboratory and field environments. The new licensed Spike measurement toolkit integrates deep pulse insights, including automatic pulse type detection, long-duration pulse storage, deinterleaving, and correlation testing, all within a single software package, helping teams verify system-level performance, diagnose faults, and accelerate development processes.
The toolkit is compatible with all Signal Hound broadband receivers, supporting up to 160 MHz of analysis bandwidth and a frequency range of up to 43.5 GHz. It automatically detects and characterizes CW (Continuous Wave), linear frequency modulation, and Barker sequence pulses, storing over 50,000 pulses in deep memory for trend and historical analysis over long acquisition intervals. Users can view detailed, configurable pulse performance metrics compliant with IEEE 181 standards, including pulse width, PRI (Pulse Repetition Interval), rise and fall times, overshoot, and ripple.
With enhanced pulse analysis options, the Spike interface offers a variety of graphs and display choices, such as AM/FM/PM versus time, spectrum, waterfall plots, histograms, pulse tables, pulse history, pulse compression, and autocorrelation. The pulse analysis license also supports deinterleaving functionality, classifying pulses from up to five different transmission sources, along with automatic transmission source detection and classification. Additionally, it provides pulse correlation and compression tests, comparing measurement data with reference waveforms to reveal signals below normal trigger thresholds.
The pulse analysis toolkit features automatic detection and characterization of CW, linear frequency modulation, and Barker sequence pulse types, offering deep pulse memory for over 50,000 pulses and displaying detailed, configurable pulse performance metrics. Available graphs include AM/FM/PM versus time, spectrum, waterfall plots, histograms, and more, with support for deinterleaving functionality as well as pulse correlation and compression tests.
With the introduction of this new licensed measurement toolkit, Signal Hound has expanded the value of Spike for radar system designers, test engineers, and field operators who require advanced pulse analysis without the cost and complexity of traditional benchtop systems. The pulse analysis toolkit is available as a licensed option for the latest Spike version 4.0.15, with a software license fee of $500 per year or a one-time permanent license purchase for $2,000.
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