The types of radar can be divided into ground radar and airborne radar. Ground radars are placed on the ground to obtain range and accuracy of targets. Ground radar also divided into military and commercial. Military ground radars focus on real-time operation and must be able to obtain information of missiles, aviation, and other objects in combat accurately. commercial radars are mainly used to detect weather and civilian aircraft.
In order to optimize the detection range and accuracy of military ground radars, the size of the antenna, the stability and robustness of the ground rotating base, the resolution of the analog signal processing, and the computing power of the digital signal processing (DSP) all affect the military characteristics.
Therefore, it will be the best choice to adopt the CompactPCI platform with high performance and parallel computing, plus FPGA to increase the resolution of analog conversion and sampling, plus the advantage of reasonable price. When using FPGAs as the computational core of ground-based radar systems, developing intellectual property (IP) related to fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) and signal synchronization will be critical to success.
MiTwell provides the FPGA-based CompactPCI module, MIES-XC65A5, which uses Intel Arria 5 SoC FPGA for DSP computing, and has the lowest power consumption under the same computing power. We also have x86-based DSP blocks that allow customers to take advantage of the x86 ecosystem for software development and compatible communication protocols.
