Research on BP imaging algorithm parallelization using C6678 DSPS

Compared to the traditional SAR imaging algorithm, Back Projection(BP) algorithm is an accurate point-by-point imaging radar algorithm based on time-domain, with simple principle and without any approximation error in the imaging process. However, because of intensive computation and low efficiency, it´s a new challenge to storage to capacity, throughput and processing ability of DSPs, a single DSP is not enough to meet these demands. So a parallel implementation method of BP algorithm based on TMS320C6678 DSP is proposed in this paper.We put forward a large point FFT multi-core parallel processing method on 2/4/8 cores what is frequently used in BP algorithm, and a multi-core synchronization method based on distributed memory. Finally using the measured data, we verify the parallel method can greatly enhance the multi-core parallelism, and the real-time performance of BP algorithm has been significantly improved.