Mid-course Design Review (MDR) Specification

The team has committed to meeting the following specifications by the December 2005 Mid-course Design Review.

1. Have come to a decision what platform to use for the digital signal processing.
   • Decision will be made between FPGA and DSP architectures based on NASA expectations, ease of programming, procesing power and cost.
2. Have code that will:
   • Buffer and window the input signal.
   • Take the 512-point or greater FFT.
   • Find the power in each frequency band.
   • Perform averaging on each frequency band.
   • Output the average and/or median frequency band power.
   • Be demonstrated using simulation.
3. Build an analog input device using delivered components that will:
   • Generate a Gaussian white noise signal using a matched load and/or "Cold Fet"
   • Amplify the noise signal by 60db
   • Bandpass filter the signal to 1.4-1.425GHz.
   • Have an estimated Noise Figure
   • Be demonstrated using microwave test equipment
   • Have a power spectral density of the output will follow the shape of the filter and amplifiers due to the properties of Gaussian White Noise