Arjuna Madanayake;Umesha Kumarasiri;Sivakumar Sivasankar;Keththura Lawrance;Buddhipriya Gayanath;Hiruni Silva;Soumyajit Mandal;Renato J. Cintra
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Abstract
The radio spectrum in the sub-6 GHz (FR1) band is crowded and contested, and is sought after by commercial, scientific and defense users. Situational awareness through spectrum sensing, and AI/ML-enabled perception that recognizes behaviors, patterns, modulations, devices and waveforms is a crucial need for emerging autonomous/cognitive radio systems. This work describes measurable progress in the use of extremely low complexity approximate DFT algorithms as multi-beam beamformers in the digital domain for multibeam spatial RF beamforming. The paper begins with a longterm vision for intelligent spectrum awareness across wide bands and multi-directions with multi-chiplet system in package hardware acceleration of both beamforming, Fourier and AI/ML algorithms, followed by a focus account of specific progress with digital architectures and real-time prototype implementations across the 5.7–5.8 GHz band for 32 RF beams. A real-time temporal frequency resolution of 100 kHz across 100 MHz of baseband bandwidth is achieved, across 32 simultaneous fully-digital RF-beams, using a Xilinx Sx475 FPGA implementation. Details of multiplierless approximate DFT beamformers, automated modulation recognition algorithms using AI/ML, analog channelization, spectrum sensing and perception architectures are also discussed. Over-the-air experiments using the RadioML.2018.a dataset confirmed both single source accuracy (better than 97%) and impact of multi-beams on AI/ML performance for multiple strong RFI sources.
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TCAS I publishes regular papers in the field specified by the theory, analysis, design, and practical implementations of circuits, and the application of circuit techniques to systems and to signal processing. Included is the whole spectrum from basic scientific theory to industrial applications. The field of interest covered includes: - Circuits: Analog, Digital and Mixed Signal Circuits and Systems - Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, Integrated Sensors, MEMS and Systems on Chip, Nanoscale Circuits and Systems, Optoelectronic - Circuits and Systems, Power Electronics and Systems - Software for Analog-and-Logic Circuits and Systems - Control aspects of Circuits and Systems.