Software Defined Radio Technology for Radar Systems

Software Defined Radio Technology for Radar Systems from Bertalan EGED

Software Defined Radar Simulator

Github software project “The Software Defined Radar Simulator” is designed to provide in SystemC an accurate simulation of commonly-used SDR blocks. These models provide both run-time and compile-time adjustable parameters. Currently these blocks include:

1. Phase Accumulator
2. CORDIC down-converter
3. CIC Filter (includes optional bit-pruning)
4. FIR Filter
5. Stimulus class to assist in test bench development
6. Signal Generator classes to assist in testing.
7. Recorder class to collect test output data.

Dependencies:

1. SystemC version 2.3 software.
2. Latest version of GCC.
3. Latest version of Boost libraries ( www.boost.org ).
4. Waf build tool.
5. Yaml-cpp version 0.5.1 software.

Get ready for software-defined RADAR

With a big RF transmitter and enough fast computing power, you have the ability to do a lot of different things, as evidenced by a General Electric presentation on "software-defined radar" at the GPU conference this year.

At GTC 13 last year, GE gave a standing-room-only presentation about how it's using RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) to drive multi-GPU process performance to new heights. The firm was back this year to talk about new and innovative applications of GPU tech it has cooked up over the past year.

How it works: Simultaneous transmit/receive for a whole load of functions

In its session, Dustin Franklin, GE GPU Applications Engineer guru, gives us an update on how it has been proceeding with RDMA and how it allows the electric company to build large scale, multi-node, products.