Estimating time parameters for radar pulse descriptor words using FPGA

Electronic warfare (EW) system is an important capability that can advance desired military or, conversely, impede undesired ones. In a military application, EW provides the means to counter, in all battle phases, hostile actions that involve the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. An electronic support...

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Main Author:	Jabas, Hatem Nabih
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79314/1/HatemNabihJabasMFKE2018.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.793142018-10-14T08:42:15Z Estimating time parameters for radar pulse descriptor words using FPGA 2018 Jabas, Hatem Nabih TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Electronic warfare (EW) system is an important capability that can advance desired military or, conversely, impede undesired ones. In a military application, EW provides the means to counter, in all battle phases, hostile actions that involve the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. An electronic support (ES) system is used by the military for intelligence gathering, threat detection, and as a support to electronic attack system. Its main feature is to determine the Pulse Descriptor Words (PDWs) which consists of: 1. Frequency. 2. Time of Arrival (TOA). 3. Pulse Width (PW). 4. Direction of Arrival (DOA). Then, PDW signal will be applied on deinterleaver to determine Pulse Repetition Interval (PRI) and it could be a simple pulse, staggered or jittered pulse. The estimated signal parameters are then used as input to a classifier network to determine the identity of the received signal. This project investigates on the hardware implementation on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) of the time parameters of radar signals after the signal is demodulated. A set of test signals representing different types of radar is first generated which is then used to estimate pulse word descriptors from the time parameters. Using histogram analysis, the estimated pulse word descriptors is then classified with a set of known data base. The performance is evaluated at various signal-to-noise ratio conditions. In this work, 128 clock cycles are used to complete the signal analysing with various values of latency depending on the PRP type. The design is more efficient in term of FPGA resources utilization comparing with previous work. The proposed design can be used for the purpose of auto-measure of time parameters in many EW applications which have physical limitations in size, weight and power consumption (SWaP) such as in an aircraft. 2018 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79314/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79314/1/HatemNabihJabasMFKE2018.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language	English
topic	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering Jabas, Hatem Nabih Estimating time parameters for radar pulse descriptor words using FPGA
description	Electronic warfare (EW) system is an important capability that can advance desired military or, conversely, impede undesired ones. In a military application, EW provides the means to counter, in all battle phases, hostile actions that involve the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. An electronic support (ES) system is used by the military for intelligence gathering, threat detection, and as a support to electronic attack system. Its main feature is to determine the Pulse Descriptor Words (PDWs) which consists of: 1. Frequency. 2. Time of Arrival (TOA). 3. Pulse Width (PW). 4. Direction of Arrival (DOA). Then, PDW signal will be applied on deinterleaver to determine Pulse Repetition Interval (PRI) and it could be a simple pulse, staggered or jittered pulse. The estimated signal parameters are then used as input to a classifier network to determine the identity of the received signal. This project investigates on the hardware implementation on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) of the time parameters of radar signals after the signal is demodulated. A set of test signals representing different types of radar is first generated which is then used to estimate pulse word descriptors from the time parameters. Using histogram analysis, the estimated pulse word descriptors is then classified with a set of known data base. The performance is evaluated at various signal-to-noise ratio conditions. In this work, 128 clock cycles are used to complete the signal analysing with various values of latency depending on the PRP type. The design is more efficient in term of FPGA resources utilization comparing with previous work. The proposed design can be used for the purpose of auto-measure of time parameters in many EW applications which have physical limitations in size, weight and power consumption (SWaP) such as in an aircraft.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Jabas, Hatem Nabih
author_facet	Jabas, Hatem Nabih
author_sort	Jabas, Hatem Nabih
title	Estimating time parameters for radar pulse descriptor words using FPGA
title_short	Estimating time parameters for radar pulse descriptor words using FPGA
title_full	Estimating time parameters for radar pulse descriptor words using FPGA
title_fullStr	Estimating time parameters for radar pulse descriptor words using FPGA
title_full_unstemmed	Estimating time parameters for radar pulse descriptor words using FPGA
title_sort	estimating time parameters for radar pulse descriptor words using fpga
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate	2018
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79314/1/HatemNabihJabasMFKE2018.pdf
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Estimating time parameters for radar pulse descriptor words using FPGA

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