Spaceborne SAR ship-detection system using FPGA SoCs with integrated ADCs/DACs

Jerzy Stefanowicz

doi:10.1117/12.2614684

3 November 2021 Spaceborne SAR ship-detection system using FPGA SoCs with integrated ADCs/DACs

Jerzy Stefanowicz

Proceedings Volume 12040, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High Energy Physics Experiments 2021; 120400U (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2614684
Event: Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High Energy Physics Experiments 2021 (WILGA 2021), 2021, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

In the recent years a number of FPGA manufacturers have developped System-on-Chip (SoC) devices which integrate FPGA fabric with ARM cores and ADCs/DACs. At the same time, following the rising popularity of deep learning, deep-learning frameworks using FPGA SoCs have emerged which can be used to easily deploy complex neural network models for in-the-field inference. The following paper describes how synthetic-appertureradar satellites based on modern FPGA SoCs can leverage these new developments and gain on-board detection capabilities. In the first section the synthetic aperture radar system is introduced, and modern FPGA SoC features are discussed and the reasoning behindenabling on-board sythetic aperture radar detection capabilities is presented. The next section describes a ship detection system which could be impemented on existing SoCbased radar payloads. The paper is concluded with a few observations on how implementing such a system could affect existing radar platforms.

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Jerzy Stefanowicz "Spaceborne SAR ship-detection system using FPGA SoCs with integrated ADCs/DACs", Proc. SPIE 12040, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High Energy Physics Experiments 2021, 120400U (3 November 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2614684

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