Northrop Grumman Corporation has finished detailed performance testing on its Advanced Pulse Generator (APG), which represents the next technology evolution for the company's Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator (CEESIM) product that is used to test and validate the performance of electronic warfare equipment. The APG utilizes high speed direct digital synthesizer (DDS) technology to generate radio frequency (RF) waveforms. This DDS-based capability offers RF performance and brings significant advantages to the user, including higher modulation sample rates, wider bandwidth intrapulse modulation, higher precision and resolution, and reduced calibration time. The capability also helps reduce RF part count, which leads to reduced cost and increased system reliability.

The APG is an affordable solution that keeps testing capability ahead of next generation receiver test requirements and can be included in new simulator designs or back-fit into any existing CEESIM simulators as an upgrade. The APG is designed with open architecture modularity and flexibility, making it directly adaptable for use in laboratory, anechoic chamber and range applications.