Cylindrical phased array radar signal processing design and FPGA implementation

Abstract

Cylindrical phased array radar has an important role in low-altitude target surveillance, and signal processing is one of the important component modules of the radar system. Cylindrical radar as one kind of phased-array radar has the characteristics of full azimuth range of multi beam and huge data which makes high demands of signal processing. FPGA occupies an important position in radar signal processing because of its characteristics of high-speed and real-time. In this paper, signal processing scheme based on Xilinx's FPGA Kintex-7 and multi-core digital signal processor (DSP) is proposed, which mainly implements functions such as data reception, pulse compression, and moving target detection (MTD) processing etc. By comparing the actual results with the matlab simulation results, it is shown that this scheme has a good performance in stablility with fast processing speed. Moreover, it has obvious advantages in the design and provides great value for engineering.