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
Pages1-5
Number of pages5
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jul 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

Workshop

TitleFifth International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems 2022
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

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Keywords

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