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A Multi-mode SAR Imaging Chip based on a Dynamically Reconfigurable SoC Architecture Consisting of Dual-operation Engines and Multilayer Switching Network
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: Received: 27 September 2018 / Approved: 27 September 2018 / Online: 27 September 2018 (15:14:49 CEST)
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Long, T.; Yang, Z.; Li, B.; Chen, L.; Ding, Z.; Chen, H.; Xie, Y. A Multi-mode SAR Imaging Chip based on a Dynamically Reconfigurable SoC Architecture Consisting of Dual-operation Engines and Multilayer Switching Network. Preprints2018, 2018090550. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0550.v1
Long, T.; Yang, Z.; Li, B.; Chen, L.; Ding, Z.; Chen, H.; Xie, Y. A Multi-mode SAR Imaging Chip based on a Dynamically Reconfigurable SoC Architecture Consisting of Dual-operation Engines and Multilayer Switching Network. Preprints 2018, 2018090550. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0550.v1
Long, T.; Yang, Z.; Li, B.; Chen, L.; Ding, Z.; Chen, H.; Xie, Y. A Multi-mode SAR Imaging Chip based on a Dynamically Reconfigurable SoC Architecture Consisting of Dual-operation Engines and Multilayer Switching Network. Preprints2018, 2018090550. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0550.v1
APA Style
Long, T., Yang, Z., Li, B., Chen, L., Ding, Z., Chen, H., & Xie, Y. (2018). A Multi-mode SAR Imaging Chip based on a Dynamically Reconfigurable SoC Architecture Consisting of Dual-operation Engines and Multilayer Switching Network. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0550.v1
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Long, T., He Chen and Yizhuang Xie. 2018 "A Multi-mode SAR Imaging Chip based on a Dynamically Reconfigurable SoC Architecture Consisting of Dual-operation Engines and Multilayer Switching Network" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0550.v1
Abstract
With the development of satellite load technology and very-large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuit technology, on-board real-time synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging systems have facilitated rapid response to disasters. Limited by severe size, weight, and power consumption constraints, a key challenge of on-board SAR imaging system design is to achieve high real-time processing performance. In addition, with the rise of multi-mode SAR applications, the reconfiguration of the on-board processing system is beginning to receive widespread attention. This paper presents a multi-mode SAR imaging chip with SoC architecture based on the reconfigurable double-operation engines and multilayer switching network. We decompose the commonly used extend chirp scaling (CS) SAR imaging algorithm into 8 types of double-operation engines according to the computing orders, and design a three-level switching network to connect these engines for data transition. The CPU is responsible for engine scheduling based on data flow driven with instructions to implement each part of the CS algorithm. Thus, multi-mode floating-point SAR imaging processing can be integrated into a single Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip instead of relying on distributed technologies. As a proof of concept, a prototype measurement system with chip-included board is implemented, and the performance of the proposed design is demonstrated on Chinese Gaofen-3 stripmap continuous imaging. A chip requires 9.2 s, 50.6 s and 7.4 s for a stripmap with 16,384×16,384 granularity, multi-channel stripmap with 65.536×8192 granularity and multi-channel scan mode with 32,768×4096 granularity and 6.9 W for the system hardware to process the SAR raw data.
Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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