Student research opportunities
Application of FPGA to RADAR Signal Acquisition
Project Code: CECS_200
This project is available at the following levels:
Engn4200
Please note that this project is only for undergraduate students.
Keywords:
Signals, FPGA, Design and Build
Supervisor:
Garry WoodsOutline:
Atmospheric Research Pty Ltd is a Canberra-based company which designs and builds atmospheric profiling equipment, used for meteorological research and pollution control. Its products are described at the website, www.a-research.com.au.
ARPL manufactures a sounder (a radar operating at 1275 MHz with a 300W pulsed power amplifier). This currently uses a fixed transmit pulse generated and system timing pulses from a simple PIC microcontroller. The sounder software is written in Delphi, a form of Pascal.
The project would examine using an FPGA to perform signal processing to acquire pulses from the wind profiler radar back-scatter signal. The signals received have a very low signal to noise ratio. The FPGA performs filtering and down sampling prior to further off-line signal processing already performed on a PC.
