Title
Design of a Programmable Radar Controller ASIC on VHDL for a Modular Radar System
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The Jicamarca Radio Observatory (JRO), funded by the USA National Science Foundation (NSF), operates several radars for different applications, from the main radar, an incoherent scatter radar used mainly for ionospheric activity observations, to ionosondes and wind profilers. Most of these radars use a centralized modular control system that commands all the radar sequences that require the radar modules, these tasks and sequences are controlled by pulsed digital signals. The device responsible for this operation is called the Radar Controller. A large number of customized Radar Controller versions were developed and built at JRO for decades, since the utilization of its first acquisition system. The current version of the Radar Controller is based on an RTL design written on VHDL language that implements a custom arbitrary waveform generator connected to an SRAM memory that stores all the data a given waveform needs. The Radar Controller uses a register based architecture to communicate between blocks internally. In JRO we use a Spartan 6 FPGA and it is controlled by a Tiva C microcontroller board which has an Ethernet port. A Restful API has been implemented on the microcontroller for user configuration. This paper will cover the VHDL RTL design of the current version of the Radar Controller core.
Language
English
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85125197675
PubMed ID
ISBN
9781665405737
Source
2021 IEEE International Conference on Aerospace and Signal Processing, INCAS 2021
Sponsor(s)
This project is funded by the USA NSF (National Science Foundation) in asociations with the Instituto Geofísico del Perú.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This project has been supported and funded by the USA National Science Foundation in asociatiosn with the Instituto Geofísico del Perú.
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