General platform designed for E3 risk assessment based on software-defined radio (SDR) principles

In this article, technical problems existing in the electromagnetic environmental effect (E3) on electronic systems are investigated, such as electromagnetic (EM) stress and effect data acquisition. Considering that the software-defined radio (SDR) has the capability of module reconfiguration, it is introduced into the electromagnetic (EM) risk assessment, and thus an experimental platform is designed based on SDR for high-power electromagnetic (HPEM) effect on wireless communication systems. The platform is composed of a multi-band RF transceiver, a baseband data processor with SDR, a monitoring EM stress subsystem and an effect database. Additionally, the potential applications of the platform in EM environment prediction, EM stress modeling, effect analysis are also illustrated.