HiPAR-DSP 16

A parallel DSP for onboard real-time processing of synthetic aperture radar data

authored by

H. Kloos, J. P. Wittenburg, W. Hinrichs, H. Lieske, L. Friebe, P. Pirsch

Abstract

In this paper we present the HiPAR-DSP 16, a parallel and programmable architecture which is adapted to the demands of SAR image processing. To provide a high FFT performance, the HiPAR-DSP 16 features an array of 16 parallel processing units. Efficient data exchange between the processing units can be done by a shared memory with concurrent access. The HiPAR-DSP 16 is able to perform a range compression of 2100 lines (4 k complex samples) per second. Therefore the HiPAR-DSP is one of the enabling technologies for onboard real-time processing of SAR images.

Organisation(s)

Laboratorium f. Informationstechnologie

Type

Paper

Pages

2319-2321

No. of pages

3

Publication date

2000

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications, Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)