The proposed Deformation, Eco-Systems, and Dynamics of Ice Radar (DESDynI-R) L-band SAR instrument employs multiple digital channels to optimize resolution while keeping a large swath on a single pass. High-speed digitization with very fine synchronization and digital beam forming are necessary in order to facilitate this new technique. The Quad First Stage Processor (qFSP) was developed to achieve both the processing performance as well as the digitizing fidelity in order to accomplish this sweeping SAR technique. The qFSP utilizes high precision and high-speed analog to digital converters (ADCs), each with a finely adjustable clock distribution network to digitize the channels at the fidelity necessary to allow for digital beam forming. The Xilinx produced FX130T Virtex 5 part handles the processing to digitally calibrate each channel as well as filter and beam form the receive signals. Demonstrating the digital processing required for digital beam forming and digital calibration is instrumental to the viability of the proposed DESDynI instrument. The qFSP development brings this implementation to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6. This paper will detail the design and development of the prototype qFSP as well as the preliminary results from hardware tests.


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    Titel :

    DESDynI Quad First Stage Processor - a four channel digitizer and digital beam forming processor


    Beteiligte:
    Chung-Lun Chuang, (Autor:in) / Shaffer, Scott (Autor:in) / Smythe, Robert (Autor:in) / Niamsuwan, Noppasin (Autor:in) / Li, Samuel (Autor:in) / Liao, Eric (Autor:in) / Lim, Chester (Autor:in) / Morfopolous, Arin (Autor:in) / Veilleux, Louise (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2013-03-01


    Format / Umfang :

    3894566 byte





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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