Digital Array Radar: MPAR Applications

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Traditional Hybrid Radar Module ~ Low‐Cost DAR Radar “2 Chip Radar” Solution Digital Backend IDEAS Microwave Laboratory Electrical and Computer Engineering Advanced Integration A/D D/A ~ SiGe GaN ~ Traditional Electronics Massively integrated SiGe chip transceivers High Power GaN MMIC Image from Eurofighter’s radar http://www.airpower.at/news06/0922_captor‐e/index.html Remove Component Cost By Leveraging Commercial Integration Practices, remove T/R module The 400 Watt Radiating Laptop Planar “laptop‐like” Integration – Simple 4 Layer Board for Analog Components
Control DAR Version I Subarray Architecture IDEAS Microwave Laboratory Electrical and Computer Engineering Quadrant Transceiver RF PC RS‐232 Spartan 3AN FPGA 32 Mb SRAM JTAG Clock Dist. 2x DAC Spartan 2x DAC 3A Spartan FPGA 2x DAC 2x DAC 3A Spartan FPGA 2x DAC 2x DAC 3A Spartan FPGA 2x DAC 4x ADC 2x DAC 3A FPGA 32 Mb 4x ADC 2x DAC SRAM 32 Mb 4x ADC 2x DAC SRAM 32 Mb 4x ADC SRAM 32 Mb 4x ADC SRAM Xcvr. Header Xcvr. Header Xcvr. Header Xcvr. Header Xcvr. Header 2x2 MIMO 2x2 Xcvr. MIMO 2x2 Xcvr. MIMO 2x2 Xcvr. MIMO Xcvr. 2x2 MIMO 2x2 Xcvr. MIMO 2x2 Xcvr. MIMO 2x2 Xcvr. MIMO Xcvr. Header Header Header Header Header Header Header Header Sw. GaN Sw. Sw. Sw. GaN Sw. Sw. Sw. Sw. GaN Sw. Sw. Sw. Sw. GaN Sw. Sw. Sw. Sw. GaN GaN GaN GaN GaN GaN GaN GaN GaN GaN GaN GaN Digital CMOS SiGe GaN 5) Synchronization Digital backend Control board designed, laid out, and populated in‐house Wrote firmware for FPGAs and software for host PC interface 3) Silicon Integration Utilized integrated Sierra Monolithics 2x2 WiMAX SiGe transceiver 4) Digital Processing Quadrant boards perform data conversion and element‐level processing 1) Antenna Panelization Antenna was designed, analyzed for mutual coupling, fabricated, and tested 2) Plastic High Power Packaging Multi‐layer panel and plastic packaging designed to house efficient GaN T/R modules
Page 1 and 2: IDEAS Microwave Laboratory Electric
Page 3 and 4: What is a Digital Array Radar? IDEA
Page 5 and 6: Overlapped Subarray Beamforming IDE
Page 7 and 8: Hierarchical Digital Backend IDEAS
Page 9 and 10: DAR Demonstrator IDEAS Microwave La
Page 11 and 12: DAR Program Concept V1 IDEAS Microw
Page 13 and 14: Motivations -Army DAR Program IDEAS
Page 15: Basic Assumptions for DAR IDEAS Mic
Page 19 and 20: GaN Results Cost is Reduced Through
Page 21 and 22: Further Developments -Target Tracki
Page 23 and 24: Andrew W.’s slide DAR Dual Polari
Page 25 and 26: Results of Dual Pol Initial Analysi
Page 27 and 28: Mutual Coupling Measurement IDEAS M

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