Peters, Nial J;
Horne, Colin P;
Amiri, Amin D;
Beasley, Piers;
Ritchie, Matthew A;
(2023)
Modular Multi-Channel RFSoC System Expansion and Array Design.
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2023 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf23).
IEEE: San Antonio, TX, USA.
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Abstract
Radio Frequency (RF) sensors are often designed to operate in a single mode or configuration. Demands coming from operating in future challenging Electromagnetic Environment (EM) conditions require innovative solutions and significant changes from current radar architectures. This paper provides a system level review of a modular multi-function RF sensor solution which allows for a N node solution which can be either used to drive a singular powerful array solution OR deployed as N multistatic RF sensor nodes. Both solutions use a common digital solution which is based on the Xilinx Radio Frequency System on a Chip (RFSoC) technology. An antenna array operating at C-band has been designed for the project, along with daughter-boards which facilitate access to all 8 receive channels from the Xilinx ZCU111 RFSoC development board. A solution to the challenges of synchronising the ADC channels (including across multiple ZCU111 boards) is also presented, with results showing the synchronisation performance.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Modular Multi-Channel RFSoC System Expansion and Array Design |
| Event: | 2023 IEEE Radar Conference |
| Location: | San Antonio, Texas, US |
| Dates: | 1 May 2023 - 5 May 2023 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-6654-3669-4 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/RadarConf2351548.2023.10149783 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/RadarConf2351548.2023.1014... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Radio frequency; C-band; Radar; Radar antennas; Sensor systems; Sensors; System-on-chip |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10170829 |
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