Hardware/Software Co-design of 2D THz SAR Imaging for FPGA-based Systems-on-Chip

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel embedded computing platform for 2D THz synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging targeting FPGA-based Systems-on-Chip. One of the key applications of the emerging THz SAR is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or mobile-robot based high-resolution environment mapping and profiling. Computational power along with energy consumption are the limiting factors with these mobile platforms. In this paper, a computing platform is proposed, which is suitable for stand-Alone UAV or mobile-robot based THz SAR sensing. A hardware/software co-design architecture is implemented using multiple hardware accelerators for the THz SAR compute-intensive kernels with a software-managed memory subsystem for large data size transfer between accelerators and external memory. The proposed hardware/software co-design is implemented and evaluated on a Xilinx Zynq MPSoC FPGA board. The experimental results are presented in terms of latency and energy consumption.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 5th International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems (IWMTS)
Place of PublicationDuisburg, Germany
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1-5
Number of pages5
ISBN (electronic)978-1-6654-8275-2
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jul 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

Workshop

Title5th International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems
Abbreviated titleIWMTS 2022
Conference number5
Duration4 - 6 July 2022
Website
CityDuisburg
CountryGermany

External IDs

unpaywall 10.1109/iwmts54901.2022.9832447
Scopus 85136130546
Mendeley bd1ec6da-2a8a-313b-86e7-dd11c161129c
ORCID /0000-0002-8019-7936/work/142238034
ORCID /0000-0003-2571-8441/work/142240529

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals

Keywords

  • Embedded systems, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), Radar imaging, Real-Time imaging, THz imaging