<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The present paper proposes a highly reconfigurable beamformer stimulus generator of radar antenna array, which includes three main blocks: settings of antenna array, settings of objects (signal sources) and a beamforming simulator. Following from the configuration of antenna array and object settings, different stimulus can be generated as the input signal for a beamformer. This stimulus generator is developed under a greater concept with two utterly independent paths where one is the stimulus generator and the other is the hardware beamformer. Both paths can be complemented in final and in intermediate steps as well to check and improve system performance. This way the technology development process is promoted by making each of the future hardware steps more substantive. Stimulus generator configuration capabilities and test results are presented proving the application of the stimulus generator for FPGA based beamforming unit development and tuning as an alternative to an actual antenna system.</p></abstract>

The present paper proposes a highly reconfigurable beamformer stimulus generator of radar antenna array, which includes three main blocks: settings of antenna array, settings of objects (signal sources) and a beamforming simulator. Following from the configuration of antenna array and object settings, different stimulus can be generated as the input signal for a beamformer. This stimulus generator is developed under a greater concept with two utterly independent paths where one is the stimulus generator and the other is the hardware beamformer. Both paths can be complemented in final and in intermediate steps as well to check and improve system performance. This way the technology development process is promoted by making each of the future hardware steps more substantive. Stimulus generator configuration capabilities and test results are presented proving the application of the stimulus generator for FPGA based beamforming unit development and tuning as an alternative to an actual antenna system.

Highly Reconfigurable Beamformer Stimulus Generator

Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre

Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences

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The present paper proposes a highly reconfigurable beamformer stimulus generator of radar antenna array, which includes three main blocks: settings of antenna...

Highly Reconfigurable Beamformer Stimulus Generator

Published Online: Mar 24, 2018

Page range: 53 - 63

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lpts-2018-0006

Keywords
antenna array, beamforming, LabVIEW, simulation, stimulus generator

© 2018 E. Vaviļina et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Highly Reconfigurable Beamformer Stimulus Generator

Published Online: Mar 24, 2018

Page range: 53 - 63

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lpts-2018-0006

Keywordsantenna array, beamforming, LabVIEW, simulation, stimulus generator

© 2018 E. Vaviļina et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
antenna array, beamforming, LabVIEW, simulation, stimulus generator