Electromagnetic (EM) channel emulator system

A system, comprising:

• one or more electromagnetic systems under test;
• one or more simulation control layers, the one or more simulation control layers configured to perform one or more simulations of the one or more electromagnetic systems under test within an emulated electromagnetic environment, the one or more simulation control layers configured to generate one or more simulation control layer signals based on the performed one or more simulations;
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• an electromagnetic channel emulator sub-system, the electromagnetic channel emulator sub-system comprising:
• an electromagnetic switch matrix sub-system, the electromagnetic switch matrix sub-system communicatively coupled to the one or more electromagnetic systems under test and the one or more simulation control layers, the electromagnetic switch matrix sub-system configured to receive the one or more simulation control layer signals from the one or more simulation control layers;
• a backbone layer, the backbone layer including one or more backbone nodes, the one or more backbone nodes comprising:
• one or more multiplexing and demultiplexing mechanisms;
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• one or more backbone layer switches,
• the one or more multiplexing and demultiplexing mechanisms configured to package the one or more analog optical signals into a single packaged signal carrier and provide the single packaged signal carrier to the one or more backbone switches, the one or more multiplexing and demultiplexing mechanisms configured to unpackage the single packaged signal carrier and provide the unpackaged signal carrier to the one or more switches of the electromagnetic switch matrix sub-system;
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• a high performance computing layer including one or more processing element nodes, the high performance computing layer communicatively coupled to the electromagnetic switch matrix sub-system and the one or more simulation control layers, the high performance computing layer configured to receive the one or more simulation control layer control signals from the one or more simulation control layers,
• the electromagnetic switch matrix sub-system comprising:
• one or more input/output layers, the one or more input/output layers including one or more electromagnetic systems under test input/output layers and one or more high performance computing input/output layers, the one or more input/output layers including one or more signal converters configured to convert one of one or more analog electromagnetic signals into one or more converted optical analog signals or one or more optical analog signals into one or more converted analog electromagnetic signals;
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• one or more switches, the one or more switches communicatively coupled to the one or more input/output layers and the high performance computing layer, the one or more switches configured to selectively position a path of an analog electromagnetic signal of the one or more analog electromagnetic signals based on the received one or more simulation control layer signals, the path of the analog electromagnetic signal of the one or more analog electromagnetic signals including one of an inbound path to a processing element node or an outbound path from a processing element node.