FPGA-Based Acceleration of THz SAR Imaging

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Beitragende

Abstract

Terahertz (THz) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is an emerging domain as it provides high spatial resolution in the range of sub-mm compared to the conventional lower frequency spectrum SAR. Despite the limited propagation range at the THz spectrum, it is suitable for short-range applications. One primary potential application could be unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based THz SAR for environment mapping and profiling. To address real-time mapping/profiling, a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based signal processing platform seems to be promising. Firstly, due to energy efficiency in comparison to CPU and GPU. Secondly, it provides massive parallelism data processing. Therefore, in this paper, a hardware-accelerated 2D THz SAR imaging is presented. The time-domain image reconstruction algorithm Backprojection is implemented using hardware description language (HDL) for the FPGA platform and in consideration of measured data for the 220-330 GHz spectrum. Further, the paper presents the estimation of accuracy in comparison to CPU-based results and hardware resource utilization. Besides, the analysis on execution time and speed-up is provided. The proposed SAR imaging accelerator is implemented and evaluated on Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ ZCU102 FPGA board.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten1-6
Seitenumfang6
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 5 Juli 2021
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Workshop

TitelFourth International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems 2021
KurztitelIWMTS 2021
Veranstaltungsnummer4
Dauer5 - 6 Juli 2021
StadtDuisburg
LandDeutschland

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0003-2571-8441/work/142240502
Scopus 85112642799

Schlagworte

Forschungsprofillinien der TU Dresden

DFG-Fachsystematik nach Fachkollegium

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

Schlagwörter

  • Hardware acceleration, Radar imaging, Real-time imaging, THz imaging