paper 150204005015

Published: 2015-07-09

High Precision Range Measurement Processor Design with Low Complexity for FMCW Radar Systems

Eugin Hyun,

Eugin Hyun

DGIST, South Korea

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Jonghun Lee

Daegu Gyeonbuk Institute of Science & Technology, Korea

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Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9，Page(s)1662-1665

Abstract

The paper presents a signal processing hardware architecture with low complexity for high precision range measurement using FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) radar. The proposed architecture is designed based on coarse FFT processing with reduced point and a fine spectrum estimator for the specific frequency of interest. The implementation results on FPGA show that the proposed method leads to lower latency and requires fewer hardware resources than full-point FFT processing.

Citation

Eugin Hyun, and Jonghun Lee, "High Precision Range Measurement Processor Design with Low Complexity for FMCW Radar Systems," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9，Page(s)1662-1665

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