RT Logic Announces Seamless Channel Simulator Integration With AGI’s STK Analysis Software

April 04, 2008

RT Logic, announced seamless integration between its state-of-the-art T400CS Channel Simulator and the powerful STK analysis software from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI).

A member of RT Logic’s expanding Telemetrix® product line, the T400CS Channel Simulator is a precision phase-continuous RF/IF communications link simulator. When controlled by AGI’s timedynamic, physics-based STK software engine, users benefit from intuitive, quick and visual development of communication link scenarios, without the need for user expertise in channel models, multipath, propagation effects, or orbital science.

Simple or complex scenarios are created within STK by selecting fixed or mobile uplink and downlink terminals or vehicles, along with actual or proposed satellites/aircraft/UAVs. To the resulting hardware in the-loop channel simulation, optional parameters such as terrain and fading can be easily applied for enhanced realism or worst-case analysis.

In addition to informative, extensive graphics, STK sets up the T400CS Channel Simulator so it can produce exact range delay, Doppler shift, range attenuation, AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise), and fading for the specified scenario. Resulting signals can then be used at IF (70 MHz) or RF (C, Ku, L, S, X, etc.) for verification and detailed analysis of transmit or receive equipment and algorithms.

STK will be integrated with RT Logic’s T400MSP Modular Signal Processor; further empowering classroom teaching and hands-on laboratory work in digital communications, satellite and payload operations, electronic warfare, defensive counter-space and communications interference management.