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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2005
Steven E. Koenck, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Joel M. Wichgers, Urbana, IA (US);
Andrew M. Vesel, Indialantic, FL (US);
Frank Pourahmadi, Hiawatha, IA (US);
Demetri Tsamis, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Gary E. Lehtola, Alburnett, IA (US);
Steven E. Koenck, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Joel M. Wichgers, Urbana, IA (US);
Andrew M. Vesel, Indialantic, FL (US);
Frank Pourahmadi, Hiawatha, IA (US);
Demetri Tsamis, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Gary E. Lehtola, Alburnett, IA (US);
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a high availability digital radio architecture which includes an analog interface subsystem and a baseband digital processing subsystem. The analog interface subsystem includes an antenna switching network and a digital antenna group translator. The translator includes a set of analog and digital building blocks for each communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) waveform. The set of blocks includes a receive signal processing chain and/or a transmit signal processing chain with digital interfaces to a multi-channel transceiver. The switching network provides connectivity between antennas and the translator. The baseband digital processing system includes a network switch and said multi-channel transceiver. The transceiver includes a digital modem and protocol processing components for implementing behavior of each CNS waveform. The network switch is communicatively coupled to said translator and to said transceiver and provides interconnection between said translator and individual channels in said baseband digital processing subsystem.