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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

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