An implementation study of airborne medium PRF Doppler radar signal processing on a massively parallel SIMD processor architecture

We show that the linear SIMD architecture FVIP is capable of performing a typical MPD radar signal processing including FFT and the resolving algorithm. A conventional DSP system clocked at 50 MHz would require approximately 200 DSPs to have the same performance as our FVIP system. We have estimated the size and power consumption of our FVIP system to be 3 dm³ and 200 W. With these MPD studies together with previous LPD studies we are confident that a “VIP-type” architecture can handle all typical pulse Doppler radar waveforms currently used in airborne radar