Our special-purpose signal-processor is at the heart of the Phalcon-2000 Racon, an important all-weather aid to marine navigation, providing a strong, identifiable and appropriate response to ship's radars for safe and efficient navigation 24 hours a day.

The signal-processor measures the amplitude, frequency and pulse width of incoming signals. If the signal is accepted as a genuine radar transmission from a ship, the high-speed logic circuits will re-tune the transmitter to the incoming signal frequency (frequency agile) and trigger the coded response. All this processing is performed in less than 500 nanoseconds. If the radar transmission is identified as a sidelobe (same frequency but much lower amplitude), the dual-token sidelobe suppression circuitry inhibits the response to prevent clutter on the ship's radar.