Synthetic Aperture Radar Algorithms on Transport Triggered Architecture Processors using OpenCL

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Radar Conference 2023
ISBN (electronic)978-1-6654-8279-0
Publication statusPublished - 28 Dec 2023
EventInternational Radar Conference 2023 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 6 Nov 202310 Nov 2023
https://www.radar2023.org/

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NameProceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference
ISSN (Print)1097-5764
ISSN (electronic)2375-5318

Abstract

Live SAR imaging from small UAVs is an emerging field. On-board processing of the radar data requires high-performance and energy-efficient platforms. One candidate for this are Transport Triggered Architecture (TTA) processors. We implement Backprojection and Backprojection Autofocus on a TTA processor specially adapted for this task using OpenCL. The resulting implementation is compared to other platforms in terms of energy efficiency. We find that the TTA is on-par with embedded GPUs and surpasses other OpenCL-based platforms. It is outperformed only by a dedicated FPGA implementation.

Keywords

    SAR, TTA, Energy-efficiency, backprojection, energy-efficiency

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Sustainable Development Goals

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Synthetic Aperture Radar Algorithms on Transport Triggered Architecture Processors using OpenCL. / Rother, Niklas; Mätzner, Leonard; Jääskeläinen, Pekka et al.
Proceedings of the International Radar Conference 2023. 2023. (Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference).

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Rother, N, Mätzner, L, Jääskeläinen, P, Leppänen, T, Schleusner, JK & Blume, HC 2023, Synthetic Aperture Radar Algorithms on Transport Triggered Architecture Processors using OpenCL. in Proceedings of the International Radar Conference 2023. Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, International Radar Conference 2023, Sydney, Australia, 6 Nov 2023. https://doi.org/10.15488/15965, https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR54928.2023.10371028
Rother, N., Mätzner, L., Jääskeläinen, P., Leppänen, T., Schleusner, J. K., & Blume, H. C. (2023). Synthetic Aperture Radar Algorithms on Transport Triggered Architecture Processors using OpenCL. In Proceedings of the International Radar Conference 2023 (Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference). https://doi.org/10.15488/15965, https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR54928.2023.10371028
Rother N, Mätzner L, Jääskeläinen P, Leppänen T, Schleusner JK, Blume HC. Synthetic Aperture Radar Algorithms on Transport Triggered Architecture Processors using OpenCL. In Proceedings of the International Radar Conference 2023. 2023. (Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference). doi: 10.15488/15965, 10.1109/RADAR54928.2023.10371028
Rother, Niklas ; Mätzner, Leonard ; Jääskeläinen, Pekka et al. / Synthetic Aperture Radar Algorithms on Transport Triggered Architecture Processors using OpenCL. Proceedings of the International Radar Conference 2023. 2023. (Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference).
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