Designing synthetic-aperture radar image formation systems can be challenging due to the
numerous options of algorithms and devices that can be used. There are many SAR image …

Hybrid floating-point (FP) implementations improve software FP performance without
incurring the area overhead of full hardware FP units. The proposed implementations are …

This paper presents the findings of a comprehensive polarimetric Ground-based Synthetic
Aperture Radar (GBSAR) imaging study conducted using a portable Vector Network …

This paper describes the design and implementation of an HW/SW system to perform the
computation of the Backprojection algorithm on an on-board Xilinx SoC-FPGA. It started with …

As transistor sizes continue to scale, more transistors are able to be used in a fixed die size.
The recent trend for general purpose processing units is to use the increased number of …

This paper details a design optimization on a hardware accelerator for an on-board real-time
SAR imaging system using the Backprojection algorithm, focusing on algorithm-specific …

Despite floating-point (FP) being the most commonly used method for real number
representation, certain architectures are still limited to fixed-point arithmetic due to the large …

Designing synthetic-aperture radar image formation systems can be challenging due to the
numerous options of algorithms and devices that can be used. There are many SAR image …

Real-time airborne signal processing for Synthetic Aperture Radar Page 1 Real-time airborne
signal processing for Synthetic Aperture Radar by Chris Wouters to obtain the degree of Master …