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, multimunitions scenes optical trackers.
- Publication:
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Final Technical Report
- Pub Date:
- April 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988stc..rept.....A
- Keywords:
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- Algorithms;
- Feedback Circuits;
- Real Time Operation;
- Signal Processing;
- Spectrum Analysis;
- Architecture (Computers);
- Digital Systems;
- Focusing;
- Image Resolution;
- Kalman Filters;
- Spread Spectrum Transmission;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering