High Speed Cascadable Signal Processing Circuits

Abstract

Signal-processing algorithms are multiply/accumulate intensive. An Expandable Vector Accelerator (EVA) architecture is presented which incorporates novel computing methods using advanced IC devices. This architecture is capable of executing speed-intensive radar-signal processing and spread-spectrum processing tasks including FFT, LMS, LS, convolution, correlation, and spectrum analysis. Preliminary board-level designs have been developed to integrate specialized high-speed, cascadable-signal-processing circuits to process a myriad of real-time algorithms. Typical applications for the EVA include range and range-rate data-processing, digital focusing, real-time Kalman filtering, real-time Target Motion Resolution (TMR) processing of MPS-36 and FPS-16 radars data, and processing image/pattern information for real-time, multi-munitions- scenes optical trackers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 29, 1988
Accession Number
ADA197078

Entities

People

  • Bradley Hamilton
  • Michael Benjamin Andrews
  • Octavio Morales

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Change Detection
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Data Transmission
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Dynamic Range
  • Filtration
  • Floating Point Operations
  • Image Processing
  • Information Processing
  • Radar
  • Signal Processing
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.