Title
Multi-Mode FMCW Radar Array with Independent Digital Beam Steering for Transmit and Receive
Author
TNO Defensie en Veiligheid
van Dijk, R.
van der Houwen, E.H.
Maas, A.P.M.
Publication year
2008
Abstract
A phased-array FMCW radar has been design and built from COTS components. The generation of the frequency sweep is done by mixing a central local oscillator signal with a baseband sweep of a direct digital synthesizer (DDS). To ensure maximum flexibility the receive side has been equipped with it's own swept signal. The transmit frequency generation and receive frequency generation are derived from the same local oscillator signal and clock to ensure coherent operation. This architecture makes a very flexible platform as the waveforms can be changed, transmit and receive and be independently programmed and the system is scalable, also by the mechanical outline of the system and antenna.
Subject
Baseband
Beam steering
Frequency synthesizers
Local oscillators
MIMO
Radar antennas
Radar detection
Signal generators
Transmitters
Transmitting antennas
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TNO identifier
221900
Publisher
European Microwave Association EuMA, Louvain-la-Neuve
Source
European Microwave Week, EuMW 2008 - Proceedings of the 5th European Radar Conference - EuRAD 2008, 30-31 October 2008 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 412-415
Document type
conference paper