A reconfigurable 2D convolver for real-time SAR imaging

Author

Strollo, Antonio G M ; Napoli, Ettore ; De Caro, Davide ; Saggese, Giacinto P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., Univ. of Naples, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

741

Abstract

A novel architecture for real-time synthetic aperture radar signal processing that achieves real-time processing by using a recently proposed signum coded algorithm and time domain processing, is presented. New architecture is completely parallel and can be dynamically reconfigured in order to use different dimensions of data and filter matrices. A standard-cell VLSI implementation is presented and its performances are evaluated through circuit simulations

Keywords

VLSI; circuit simulation; convolution; matrix algebra; parallel architectures; radar imaging; radar signal processing; real-time systems; reconfigurable architectures; synthetic aperture radar; time-domain analysis; data matrices; dynamically reconfigurable architecture; filter matrices; matrix dimensions; parallel architecture; real-time SAR imaging; real-time processing; real-time synthetic aperture radar signal processing architecture; reconfigurable 2D convolver; signum coded algorithm; standard-cell VLSI implementation; time domain processing; Circuits; Convolution; Convolutional codes; Convolvers; Data processing; Filters; Radar polarimetry; Signal processing algorithms; Synthetic aperture radar; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2001. ICECS 2001. The 8th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7057-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2001.957581

Filename

957581