Customer Challenge
Seeking partner to develop Sub-System Hardware for a new UK variant of an existing Customer Radar
- Radar development programme to develop upgraded AESA / E-Scan Radar with additional modes of operation, advanced functionality, wider FoR
- Critical shortage of resource
- Development of HW for sub-systems (Radar PX, RX & ANT LRIs) to meet project milestones
Solution
- Quest Global hardware team closely integrated with customer systems/hardware teams
- Development of multiple Hardware SRI’s
- Development of test I/F’s for SRI HW design proving (DVT)
- Requirements documentation (HRS, DVM, ICDs)
- HW design & analysis documentation (Schematics, HDD, PCB Layout RS, comp. derating, thermal analysis, etc)
- APL/BOM creation, support to Purchasing for component procurement
- Verification test documents (DAS, DTS, PAS)
Features
- LRI Controller modules, including complex FPGA’s & high-speed serial I/F’s
- High-speed Digitizer. wide dynamic range, high SNR
- Plank modules (interface to AESA antenna element TRM’s)
- Redesigned PSU to provide low voltage supplies for COTS VPX Processor/FPGA modules
- Full HW lifecycle, milestone development process & stage Design reviews
- HW Requirements capture & traceability
- HW Architecture & Detailed design (schematics)
- PCB Layout
- MDP (ODB/Gerbers, Assy Dwgs, BOMs)
- HW Test & Verification
Value Delivered
- Development of critical HW, utilizing Quest Global capability and experience, locally and elsewhere in UK
- Programme timescales met despite key customer resources being transferred to latest projects
- Trusted partner for HW development and technical assessment of HW designs