Digital Array Radar: MPAR Applications
Digital Array Radar: MPAR Applications
Digital Array Radar: MPAR Applications
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Overlapped Subarray<br />
(OSA) Digitization<br />
Can form on the order of M<br />
simultaneous beams with purely<br />
analog beamformers<br />
Antenna array (N elements)<br />
<strong>Digital</strong> Beamforming Architectures<br />
IDEAS Microwave Laboratory<br />
Electrical and Computer Engineering<br />
<strong>Digital</strong> at Every Element with<br />
Hierarchical <strong>Digital</strong> Backend<br />
Digitizer modules, intermediate<br />
processors, and final signal<br />
processor work together<br />
intelligently and flexibly<br />
T/R modules (N elements)<br />
M RF OSA<br />
beamformers<br />
RF<br />
Baseband<br />
<strong>Digital</strong><br />
Antenna array (N elements)<br />
T/R modules (N elements)<br />
N digitizer modules<br />
M down‐converters<br />
M digitizers<br />
Intermediate<br />
Processor<br />
Intermediate<br />
Processor<br />
<strong>Radar</strong> Signal Processor and<br />
final beamformer<br />
<strong>Radar</strong> Signal Processor and<br />
final beamformer