Embedded Digital Signal Processing for Radar Applications

In the last ten years, there has been significant emphasis on advancing sensor systems with active electronically scanned antennas (AESAs). The recent advances in computing technologies make it affordable to exploit the flexibility of AESAs using very high performance embedded computers for signal and image processing. This tutorial presents an overview of applications demanding real-time embedded computing, an introduction to hardware and software implementation techniques, recent advances in hardware and software standards to achieve rapid technology insertion, and a look into observed embedded computing trends.