Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g. – Synthetic aperture radar
Patent
1993-04-28
1994-07-12
Hellner, Mark
Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g.,
Synthetic aperture radar
342194, 364736, G06F 738
Patent
active
053292839
ABSTRACT:
A digital signal processor optimized for synthetic aperture radar image formation provides two separate stages of arithmetic processing along independent in-phase and quadrature channels. The first stage accepts a first reference input and integrates a multiplier/accumulator for each channel, and the second stage accepts a second reference input and includes a multiplier and an adder for each channel. In addition to hardware to select and route data in accordance with a desired operation, a hold register is incorporated prior to input-selection logic to facilitate complex-by-complex multiplications of data derived from either input in the first stage. Hold registers are also included before the second-stage adders to permit a complex multiplication with magnitude weighting to occur during the zero-th stage of a fast Fourier transformation, effectively hiding the time to perform one FFT stage. A control section contains a microprogrammed control sequencer, an input/output controller, data address generators and two reference address generators, the data and address generators being implemented using digital differential analyzers, or DDAs, which may be combined to form second-order or groups of complex linear DDAs. Implemented as a single-chip C-MOS integrated circuit, the architecture comprises a complete SAR image-formation processing element, including all arithmetic, control and addressing functions. The circuit is entirely self-contained with the exception of an external memory required to store partial results and reference functions.
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