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Design and Rapid-prototyping of Multidimensional-DSP Beamformers Using the ROACH-2 FPGA Platform

Seneviratne, Vishwa
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1488149940846702

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2017, Master of Science, University of Akron, Electrical Engineering.
Radio frequency (RF) antenna array beamforming based on electronically steerable wideband phased-array apertures find applications in communications, radar, imaging and radio astronomy. High-bandwidth requirements for wideband RF applications necessitate hundreds of MHz or GHz frame-rates for the digital array processor. Systolic array architectures are often employed in multi-dimensional (MD) signal processing for linear and rectangular antenna arrays. Thus, this research used a FPGA hardware platform, the ROACH-2, which is equipped with a Xilinx Virtex-6 SX475T FPGA chip, and which is widely used in the field of radio astronomy. The research concentrated on the prospects of implementation of systolic array based MD beamformers on the ROACH-2, and on methods of extending the operating frequency to GHz range by using polyphase structures. The proposed systolic array architectures employ a differential form 2-D IIR frequency planar beam filter structure which is low in hardware utilization. The study highlights techniques that can be used to overcome the limitations of the ROACH-2 signal processing platform to achieve high operating frequencies.
Arjuna Madanayake (Advisor)
Subramaniya Hariharan (Committee Member)
Joan Carletta (Committee Member)
115 p.
Communication; Electrical Engineering; Engineering
ROACH-2; multidimensional; FPGA; polyphase structures; beamformers; systolic arrays; planar array; phased-array; wideband beamformers; plane wave signal; beam filter; passive LRC networks; multirate; VLSI; ADC; antenna arrays; look-ahead optimization

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  • Seneviratne, V. (2017). Design and Rapid-prototyping of Multidimensional-DSP Beamformers Using the ROACH-2 FPGA Platform [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1488149940846702

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Seneviratne, Vishwa. Design and Rapid-prototyping of Multidimensional-DSP Beamformers Using the ROACH-2 FPGA Platform. 2017. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1488149940846702.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Seneviratne, Vishwa. "Design and Rapid-prototyping of Multidimensional-DSP Beamformers Using the ROACH-2 FPGA Platform." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1488149940846702

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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