Patent ID: 7177608

Claim:
A system for wide-band reception and processing of signals comprising: a signal acquisition stage for receiving a wide-band signal comprised of a plurality of individual channels; a channel extractor for extracting the plurality of individual channels from the wide band signal, coupled to the signal acquisition stage; a file management system for managing the plurality of individual channels, coupled to the channel extractor; and, storage coupled to the file management system, whereby at least one of the plurality of individual channels is stored for later use, wherein the channel extractor further includes: a channel extractor input interface for selecting a plurality of time domain samples from the high-bandwidth digital data stream; a processing block for converting the plurality of time domain samples into a plurality of frequency domain samples, coupled to the channel extractor input interface; and, a channel assembler, for assembling the plurality of frequency domain samples into a plurality of individual channels, coupled to the processing block.