A Configurable Waveform Generator for Radar Applications

Modern radars are implemented using the SDR technique. This research focuses on designing and implementing integrated circuit boards that transmit desired radar signals and receive them to be used in targets detection and tracking, As a part of a complete configurable radar system. A configurable SDRadar that generates CW, phase-modulated pulsed and CW, linear frequency modulated CW, and amplitude modulated signals are designed and implemented using a generic and simple method. Any waveform can be constructed by specifying the values of four variables only that can be set online. When compared with the state-of-the-art, the resources are reduced by more than 50%. The circuit boards were designed using the Altium designer CAD tool, simulated using Hyper Lynx, and implemented that reduced the overall cost and size.