Model ARC-HiQ -Digital Receiver for Remote Sensing Applications

ARC currently supports 2 receivers that are built in-house as well as receivers built by other manufacturers.  We also provide down-converters in multiple frequency ranges.  ARC started using the HiQ down-converter card,originally designed by NCAR, with proprietary interface software that conversed with the NCAR TITAN software suite and the ARC-GUI control suite of programs.  This platform is still supported but is not suggested for new systems.  A replacement IF digitizer and down-converter has been developed using a state-of-the-art, multi-channel, analog to digital converter card with an on-card FPGA for performing down-conversion of the IF data to baseband range-gate data.  The same utilities are used to configure and monitor the performance of the receiver regardless of which digitizer card is used.