Wave beam control design for VM-based Phased Array Antenna

Author

Peng, Wang ; Zhiwen, Yao

Author_Institution

Photoelectric Technol. Developing Center, Luoyang, China

Volume

2

fYear

2011

fDate

29-31 July 2011

Abstract

A low complexity wave beam control system for VM-based Phased Array Antenna was presented, which is capable of realizing real-time wide angle scanning. To decrease interface No. 2-stage layered system were adopted, all the necessary control data were generated in main board, then these datum were transmitted into several sub-board via high-speed Link bus, and further distributed into each antenna T/R component. Whole system processing core is Stratix II EP2S30 FPGA of Altera Corp. Maximum frequency achieved 168.56 MHz, while for current design, 80MHz work clock frequency is sufficient to attain real-time wave beam control, about 9334 ALUTs were employed in main board FPGA. Sub-board only completed data distributing via simple CPLD. This system has been verified on certain radar platform, so that proved its reliability and validity.

Keywords

antenna phased arrays; control system synthesis; data communication; field programmable gate arrays; programmable logic devices; radar antennas; 2-stage layered system; CPLD; FPGA; data transmission; phased array antenna; reliability; vector modulator; wave beam control system; Field programmable gate arrays; Frequency synthesizers; Phased arrays; Registers; Robustness; Silicon; Phased Array Antenna; Vector Modulator; real-time processing; wave beam control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and Optoelectronics (ICEOE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-275-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEOE.2011.6013164

Filename

6013164