An 8-channel baseband data acquisition platform for digital beamforming radars

The goal of this work is a platform which can be used for multiple applications. The Laboratory of applied radar and optical systems (LaROS) is occupying with signal processing of radar and camera systems, as well as the design of new radar systems for various fields of applications. At this point the creation of a platform for students where they can improve their knowledge about signal processing is required. For this an eight channel radar front-end is used as source but the platform is not connected permanently to the front-end, so that it can be reused for other projects as well. It digitizes the eight signal channels from the radar front-end simultaneously with high sampling rates and provides the data in a MATLAB environment where students can analyse this signals in many ways. The platform will be used in lectures as Microwave technology, Computer architecture and Signal Processing for laboratories.