FMCW rail-mounted SAR: Porting spotlight SAR imaging from MATLAB to FPGA

A. Melnikov, J. Le Kernec, D. Gray

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Abstract

In this work, a low-cost laptop-based radar platform derived from the MIT open courseware has been implemented. It can perform ranging, Doppler measurement and SAR imaging using MATLAB as the processor. In this work, porting the signal processing algorithms onto a FPGA platform will be addressed as well as differences between results obtained using MATLAB and those obtained using the FPGA platform. The target FPGA platforms were a Virtex6 DSP kit and Spartan3A starter kit, the latter was also low-cost to further reduce the cost for students to access radar technology.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages780-785
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479952748
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2014
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2014 - Guilin, Guangxi, China
Duration: 5 Aug 20148 Aug 2014

Publication series

Name2014 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2014

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin, Guangxi
Period5/08/148/08/14

Keywords

  • Doppler
  • FPGA
  • SAR
  • radar
  • ranging

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