RADAR Signal Data Acquisition, Conditioning & Processing System

TECHNICAL PROPOSAL

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................5 FUNCTIONAL FEATURES.............................................................................6 FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAM ..................................................................6 FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DESCRIPTION ............................................................7
DATA ACQUISITION.........................................................................................................................7 DIGITAL DOWN CONVERSION..............................................................................................................9 DECODING ...............................................................................................................................12 COHERENT INTEGRATION..................................................................................................................13 NORMALIZATION .........................................................................................................................13 WINDOWING ..............................................................................................................................13 FOURIER ANALYSIS .......................................................................................................................13 SPECTRAL AVERAGING ...................................................................................................................14 SPECTRUM CLEANING ..................................................................................................................14 NOISE LEVEL ESTIMATION.................................................................................................................15 MOMENTS ESTIMATION...................................................................................................................16 UVW COMPUTATION......................................................................................................................18

SCOPE OF WORK.....................................................................................19 SIMULATION DETAILS............................................................................20 DELIVERABLES........................................................................................26 DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE.......................................................................26 TESTING & PROVING................................................................................26 TRAINING AND DOCUMENTATION ............................................................26 OTHER REQUIREMENTS: ..........................................................................27

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LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE 1 DIGITAL RECEIVER OVERALL BLOCK DIAGRAM..............................6 FIGURE 2: FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAM....................................................7 FIGURE 3 : BAND-PASS SAMPLING FOR 206.5 MHZ RECEIVED RF SIGNAL......8 FIGURE 4 : REPLICATION OF LTC2209 ILLUSTRATING BAND-PASS SAMPLING FOR 206.5 MHZ SIGNAL.............................................................................8 FIGURE 5 REAL-TIME SPECTRUM OF 206.5 MHZ RF SIGNAL WITH SAMPLING RATE OF 72 MSPS. ...................................................................................9 FIGURE 6 FRAMEWORK OF DDC SECTION....................................................9 FIGURE 7 MIXER OUTPUT SPECTRUM........................................................10 FIGURE 8 NCO OUTPUT SPECTRUM..........................................................10 FIGURE 9 CIC STAGE CHARACTERISTICS....................................................12 FIGURE 10: AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION OF EDE2 AND ED1D PULSE CODED WAVEFORMS...........................................................................................12 FIGURE 11: RAW RF DATA WITH FREQUENCY 206.5MHZ...............................................................................................21 FIGURE 12: SPECTRUM OF UNDERSAMPLED SIGNAL..................................21 FIGURE 13: SPECTRUM OF DOWNCONVERTED SIGNAL...............................22

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LIST OF TABLES

TABLE 1 CIC SPECIFICATIONS...................................................................11 TABLE 2 CFIR AND PFIR STAGE SPECIFICATIONS.......................................11

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INTRODUCTION
The term Radar is the abbreviation for Radio Detection and Ranging, defined as the art of detecting the presence of target, determining their direction and range, recognizing their character by means of radio waves. The principle involved in the atmospheric Radar is to transmit the modulated waveform of electromagnetic energy using antenna array into the atmosphere and processing the backscattered echoes through suitable means utilizing a chain of signal processors to determine vertical wind components with a high degree of temporal and spatial resolutions (typically at ~ 30 m and at ~ 150 m, respectively), and other vital parameters required for studying the structures and dynamics of atmosphere. Pulsed Doppler-effect radar wind profilers use pulses of electromagnetic radiation and exploit the Doppler Effect to measure velocity of the wind at different altitudes from the ground. As the name suggests, these devices are radar systems, albeit somewhat specialized. In particular, they must detect returned signals at far lower Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) than in conventional radar systems, since wind speed is very small. In Radar Applications, the echoes received through the antenna system will be passed to the RF Receiver system. To bring the signal level within the dynamic range of Digital Receiver, RF signal will be directly digitized using base band Nyquist criteria. The digitized RF signal will be down converted to base band level using digital down converter (DDC). As the radiated RF signal is complimentary coded, base band I and Q data will be passed through the Decoder, then through Coherent integrator, FFT ,Spectral average , Moments estimation and finally UVW computation, which will give the information about wind speed and direction. Over all block diagram is shown below.

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Figure 1 Digital Receiver Overall Block Diagram

This document gives the technical details of the project for the RADAR Signal Data Acquisition, Conditioning & Processing System. This document describes Functional Features, Functional Description in detail, Scope of Work, Simulation details, Test Environment, Development Schedule and Deliverables.

FUNCTIONAL FEATURES
The proposed system is used for acquisition, conditioning and processing of Wind Profiler RADAR echoes with following functional features: a) Direct sampling of RF signal by Sub-Nyquist Criteria b) Narrow Band FIR filters in Digital domain (CIC, CFIR and PFIR) c) FPGA based FFT (Max1024 points) for Doppler shift extraction d) FPGA based Standard Decoding algorithm for Coded RF Signal e) PC based offline Data processing for U, V and W f) Displaying the output of all phases on Auxiliary Radar Display Functional Block Diagram

Data

FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAM

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Figure 2: Functional Block Diagram

FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DESCRIPTION

Data Acquisition To make a receiver more flexible, it is desirable to sample and digitize the received signal at the RF frequency. Radio Frequency (RF) front-end is to minimize the complexity and to digitize the signals as close as possible to Antenna. Atmospheric RADAR returns are captured using ICS-1554 Digital Receiver Card which has a high speed, high resolution ADC. Radio Frequency (RF) front-end digitization is implemented by sampling the 206.5 MHz RF signal using under-sampling. Band-pass sampling (or under sampling) is a sampling technique in which the frequency conversion and the sampling are performed at the same time using a sampling frequency less than the Nyquist frequency of the sampled
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signal. Using appropriate sampling frequency Fs, the desired signal is frequency-converted to a frequency range between 0 and Fs/2. Out-band interference and noises not rejected by the band pass filter are also frequency-converted to the same frequency range. Thus, the signal can be frequency-converted without an oscillator or a mixer by undersampling. The criterion for band-pass sampling is given as:

Where fH = Higher cut-off frequency, fL = Lower cut-off frequency, and n is an integer. Acquisition is carried out by taking the features of latest high speed (16-bit) ADC of Linear Technology LTC2209. In the present scheme, the received signals at 206.5 MHz are under-sampled at the speed of 72 MSPS (Fs). The translation is shown in Fig. and the replicated model of LTC2209 illustrating this translation is shown in Fig. ADC LTC2209 provides an ultra low jitter of 70 FS RMS thereby allowing the under sampling of 206.5 MHz RF signal with excellent noise performance.

Figure 3 : Band-pass sampling for 206.5 MHz received RF signal

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Figure 4 : Replication of LTC2209 illustrating band-pass sampling for 206.5 MHz signal

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The figure below shows the ADC captured Signal of 206.5 MHz RF Signal sampled using LTC2209 ADC with 72 MSPS sample rate on ICS-1554 Digital Receiver Card. The output spectrum of 9.5 MHz is depicted.

Figure 5 Real-Time Spectrum of 206.5 MHz RF signal with Sampling Rate of 72 MSPS. Digital Down Conversion The DDC performs the critical frequency translation needed to extract the desired information. It converts a digitized RF signal centered at 206.5 MHz down to a baseband complex signal centered at zero frequency. In addition to down conversion, DDCs typically decimate to a lower sampling rate, allowing follow-on signal processing by lower speed processors. The typical block diagram of DDC is shown in Fig.

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Figure 6 Framework of DDC section

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DDC block integrates: a) A Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS)/Numerically Controlled Oscillator (NCO) which generates a complex sinusoid at the intermediate frequency. b) A pair of Mixers that allows translation down to baseband, and c) Chain of multistage multirate filter consisting of Cascaded Integrator Comb (CIC) filter and FIR filters. DDC can be implemented using either Quad GC4016 ASIC chip on the ICS 1554 board or as logic implemented in FPGA fabric. FPGA is a more effective choice in the present scheme because of its following merits: - Better performance like improved Spurious-Free Dynamic Range (SFDR). - Faster processing and inbuilt re-configurability. - Reduction in Power requirement increased precision performance. - Excellent quadrature channel phase balance, increased temperature stability. - Can easily tailor and optimize the design. FPGA available in ICS-1554 Digital Rx Card is Virtex-5 SX95T which has 94,208 logic cells, 8,784 block RAM bits and 640 DSP Multipliers. In the present scheme, the digital outputs from the ADC are delivered into the Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA for routing, formatting and DDC signal processing application. A FirstIn First- Out (FIFO) interface (128 K x 74 bits) can be provided in between to gather data from ADC.NCO is the critical component in DDC. It can be implemented in a various ways. Here the NCO design based on Look-Up Table (LUT). The NCO output spectrum is shown in Fig. and the mixer output is shown in Figure.

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Figure 8 NCO Output spectrum

Figure 7 Mixer Output spectrum

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The Transfer Function for a CIC filter at Fs is:

For the present scheme, the design specification chosen for CIC filter are given in Table. Table 1 CIC Specifications

When there is large number of stages in CIC filter, the frequency response does not possess a flat band character. The magnitude droop occurs in the pass band resulting in undesired response. To overcome the magnitude droop, a FIR filter that has an inverse magnitude response of CIC filter is applied to achieve the frequency response correction. These filters are thereby called as CFIR and PFIR filters. For the present scheme, the design specification chosen for CFIR and PFIR filters are given in Table. Table 2 CFIR and PFIR stage specifications

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The CFIR stage characteristics are shown in Figure and the PFIR stage characteristics are shown in Figure.

Figure 9 CIC stage characteristics Resampler can be used as an additional optional filter to optimize the pass band or stop band response of the channel. The overall gain of DDC is the product of the CIC gain, coarse gain, CFIR gain, PFIR gain, final shift gain. Each of these gain are set by Gain Setting block so as to maximize the signal amplitude without clipping. Decoding Received RADAR data could be complementary encoded using 8,16,32,64 bit Binary phase encoding methods such as Barker coding. Decoding algorithm should be implemented using FPGA. Complementary phase codes are binary in their simplest form and they usually come in pairs. They are coded exactly as Barker codes. The range side lobes of the resulting ACF output for each pulse will generally be larger for a barker code of comparable length, but the two pulses are complementary pair have the property that their side lobes are equal in magnitude but opposite in sign, so that when outputs are added the side lobes exactly cancel, leaving only the central peak. Decoding can be implemented using Modified Transversal Architecture. Transversal Filters can be designed in FPGA using Finite Impulse Response (FIR) Filters.

Figure 11: Architecture of Transversal Page 12 of 27 Filter Figure 9: Phase Coded Waveforms and Autocorrelation Function Figure 10: Autocorrelation Function of EDE2 and ED1D

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Coherent Integration The detected quadrature signals are coherently integrated for many pulse returns which lead to an appreciable reduction in the volume of the data to be processed and an improvement in the SNR. It is integrating a signal for a time period equal to coherence time. Coherence time is the time for which frequency of the signal is same. The objective is to measure a signal x (n) of duration of N samples, n = 0, 1, N-1. The measurement can be performed repeatedly. A total of M such measurements are performed and the results are averaged by the signal averaging. Let the results of the mth measurements, for m = 1, 2, M, are the samples. y m (n) = x (n) + (n) for
1 M y m (n) for n = 0,1,....... N 1 M m =1 Where, x (n) and n (n) corresponds to signal and noise respectively.

n = 0,1,..., N 1

x(n) =

Normalization The input data is to be normalized by applying a scaling factor corresponding to the operation done on it. This will reduce the chance of data overflowing due to any other succeeding operation. The Normalization has following components. a. sampling resolution of ADC b. scaling due to pulse compression in decoder c. scaling due to coherent integration d. Scaling due to number of FFT points. If, v is ADC bit resolution (10/16384), W is Pulse width in microsecond, M is Number of IPP integrated = Integrated time /inter pulse period, N is Number of FFT points, Then, the Normalization factor is given as Windowing To prevent leakage and picket fence effects that occur due to FFT performed on finite length data, weighting the data with suitable windows is performed. However the use of the data windows other than the rectangular window affects the bias, variance and frequency resolution of the spectral estimates. Fourier Analysis Spectral analysis is connected with characterizing the frequency content of a signal. The windowed spectrum is Fourier transformed to obtain the frequency

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domain signal. FFT will be performed using the available IP cores for FPGA. From the FFT output, power spectrum is calculated. Spectral Averaging Incoherent integration is the averaging of the power spectrum number of times. The advantage of the incoherent integration is that it improves the detectability of the Doppler spectrum. Power Spectrum, Where, m is the number of spectra integrated. Spectrum Cleaning Due to various reasons the radar echoes may get corrupted by ground clutter, system bias, interference, image formation etc. The data is to be cleaned from these problems before going for analysis.
Clutter/ DC removal:

One way to eliminate its biasing effect is to ignore the frequencies around zero (dc) frequency. This is possible only when the spectral offset is larger than its width. The basic operation carried out here is,

Where, N/2 corresponds to DC or Zero Frequency.

Interference:

Constant frequency bands will form in the power spectrum by the interference generated in the system or due to extraneous signal. Due to this reason it is also possible the formation of multiple bands in spectrum. This is removed by taking a range bin, which does not have echoes but the interference. This range bin gets subtracted from all other range bins after the removal of mean noise. If the interference is not affecting the original Doppler trace then the analysis may be carried out in a window confined to the Doppler trace.

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Noise Level Estimation The method implemented here is based on the variance decided by a threshold criterion, Hildebrand and Sekhon (1974). This method makes use of the observed Doppler spectrum and of the physical properties of white noise; it does not involve knowledge of the noise level of the radar instrument system. This method is now widely used in atmospheric radar noise threshold estimation and removal. The noise level threshold shall be estimated to the maximum level L, such that the set of Spectral points below the level S, nearly satisfies the criterion, Step 1: Reorder the spectrum {Pi, i = 0, N-1} in ascending order to form. Let this sequence be written as {Ai, i = 0, . . . N-1} and Ai < Aj for i < j Step 2: Compute,

Where, M is the number of spectra that were averaged for obtaining the data. Step 3:

N oise level( L) = Pk w h ere k = m in 1.

su chthat

Rn> 1

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Moments Estimation An algorithm based on an adaptive method has been used that aims at tracking the signal adaptively in a rangeDoppler spectral frame with background noise. The algorithm works round a set of parameters that get updated constantly so as to optimize the tracking performance of the adaptive method. The implementation of the method for adaptive tracking of the Doppler signal and estimating moments involves a sequence of steps as detailed below. Step 1: a. Noise removal The raw Doppler power spectra recorded online are subjected to low-pass filtering (that is, smoothing) to reduce the level of noise fluctuations that appear particularly prominent in the low SNR regions. The low pass filtering is implemented with a three-point running average of the Doppler spectrum. Then, the mean noise level is estimated for each range gate using an objective method based on Gaussian statistics (Hildebrand and Sekhon 1974). The mean noise level for each range gate is subtracted from the corresponding power spectrum. b. Adaptive signal profiling The parameters used for adaptive signal tracking in a range-Doppler frame are the Doppler velocity window, wind shear threshold, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).The range-Doppler frame is divided into a number of range windows with a maximum of 50 range windows per profile and each range window containing two or more range gates. For each range window minimum and maximum velocities and maximum wind shear per range gate are identified, with allowed margins, and are called the Doppler velocity window and wind shear threshold, respectively. For the first Doppler frame, as there is no prior information available, the Doppler velocity window and wind shear threshold parameters are set from range gate to range gate based upon certain realistic criteria. For subsequent rangeDoppler set the range window, Doppler velocity window, and wind shear threshold parameters. The SNR threshold is set at 10 dB above the mean noise level estimated for the noise region at the upper end of the height range. Step 2: Setting up of Doppler window and wind shear threshold parameters For the first rangeDoppler frame, the Doppler velocity window is set adaptively from range gate to range gate. The window setting is initiated by identifying the most prominent spectral peak in the first range gate for which the SNR is invariably quite high (_7 dB). The Doppler velocity window limits are
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then set at _20% of the coherent integration filter bandwidth on either side of the mean Doppler velocity associated with the prominent spectral peak. The Doppler velocity window set for the first range gate is used to identify the most prominent peak in the second range gate since the signal is not expected to change by more than 20% of the coherent filter bandwidth from one range gate to the next. New Doppler velocity window limits are set for the second range gate based on the position of the mean Doppler velocity at its most prominent spectral peak within the Doppler velocity window. The procedure is repeated sequentially for all range gates, thereby fixing a heightvarying Doppler velocity window for the entire frame. For the first frame, the wind shear threshold is also set from range gate to range gate and it is expressed in terms of the deviation permissible in the equivalent mean Doppler velocity. The wind shear threshold limit is set by adding 20% of the full width of the Doppler velocity signal to the locally computed wind shear using moving pairs of range gates. From the second frame onward the total range is divided into a specified number of range windows, up to a maximum set of 50 per profile with each range window having two or more range gates. Doppler velocity window and wind shear threshold are set from range window to range window. Using the information from the previous Doppler frame, for each range window the minimum and maximum mean Doppler velocities are noted and the Doppler velocity window is set to the minimum and maximum mean Doppler velocity with the velocity full width as margin on either side. Step 3: Selecting moments five candidate signals and estimating their

The five most prominent spectral peaks are selected as candidate signals within the specified Doppler velocity window for each range gate. For the five candidate signals in each range gate, the three low-order spectral moments are computed following Woodman (1985). The zeroth, first, and second moments, representing total signal power, weighted mean Doppler velocity and velocity width, respectively, are denoted by Ms m(n), where s varies from 1 to 5 and represents the spectral peak number, m varies from 0 to 2 in the order of the spectral moments, and n is the number of the range gate. The moments for each range gate are stored in descending order of power level for the five selected candidate signals. Step 4: Selecting the most probable candidate The task performed in this step of the algorithm involves adaptive profiling of the Doppler signal through an iterative process. In the first iteration, moments values of the five most prominent candidate signals are selected [i.e., M1 m(n)] and stored in the select list if their SNRs are more than the specified SNR threshold value. In this way the first-cut signal trace is obtained for the entire height range. The range gates that
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remain unattended in the first iteration based on the SNR criterion are subsequently dealt with in the following three iterations that make use of the wind shear criterion.

UVW Computation The prime objective of atmospheric radar is to obtain the vector wind velocity. Velocity measured by radar with the Doppler technique is a line of sight velocity, which is the projection of velocity vector in the radial direction. There are two different techniques of determining the three components of the velocity vector: the Doppler Beam Swinging (DBS) method and Spaced Antenna (SA) method. The DBS method uses a minimum of three radar beam orientations (Vertical, East-West, and North-South) to derive the three components of the wind vector (Vertical, Zonal and Meriodonal). The horizontal velocity and the characteristics of the ground diffraction pattern and thereby that of the scattering irregularities can be obtained through the full correlation analysis of Briggs (1984). Calculation of radial velocity and height: For representing the observation results in physical parameters, the Doppler frequency and range bin have to be expressed in terms of corresponding radial velocity and vertical height. Radial Velocity V = and Vertical Height

where , c - velocity of light in free space, fD- Doppler frequency, fC- Carrier frequency, l - Carrier wavelength, q - Beam tilt angle, tR - Range time delay. Computation of absolute Wind velocity vectors (UVW): After computing the radial velocity for different beam positions, the absolute velocity (UVW) can be calculated. To compute the UVW, at least three noncoplanar beam radial velocity data is required. If higher number of different beam data is available, then the computation will give an optimum result in the least square method. LOS Velocity Vector V (VX,VY,VZ) for coplanar beam velocity. VD = V.i = Vx cosx + Vy cosy + Vz cosz
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where X, Y, and Z directions are aligned to East-West, North-South and Zenith respectively.

Thus, on solving equation we can derive VX,VY,VZ which corresponds to U (Zonal), V (Meridonal) and W (Vertical) components of velocity.

SCOPE OF WORK
The scope of work for the development is divided into three phases. Phase 1 During this phase, Project definition design documents will be submitted. Also, the simulation of spectrum estimation i.e. online signal processing for Doppler extraction using ICS 1554 card compatible with PCI slot in Windows environment. Phase 2 This phase covers the On-line signal processing of radar return signals on FPGA based PMC card. As part of this phase, the development environment is around ICS-1554 PMC module with Virtex-5 SX95T FPGA, which is sourced by ECIL. The input is radar data received as RF signal. Outputs will be the plots of I and Q channel data, Coherent integrated time domain signal and spectral averaged power spectrum. GUI will be designed to show the outputs. The broad segments of work are Integration of digital Rx ICS 1554 in a 64 bit PCI-X slot system Digitize the analog RF signal into 16 bit format using LTC 2209 Development of DDC and decoding features on the FPGA in time domain Implementation of coherent signal integration on the FPGA in time domain Porting of spectral estimation using FFT on FPGA in frequency domain Phase 3 In this phase, mainly off-line processing of Doppler profiles on workstation based on Linux/RT Linux OS is to be taken up. The input is spectral averaged frequency domain signal. The broad segments of work involved are a) Moments Estimation b) Wind Component Calculation c) Speed and direction calculation d) Real and near time product displays
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e)

Data archiving

Outputs to be expected of Phase 3 are the plots of 1. I, II and III moments estimated (separately for each moment) 2. SNR based on moments 3. Doppler 4. Doppler width (D-width) 5. Noise 6. UVW component plots 7. Speed 8. Direction 9. Vertical velocity

SIMULATION DETAILS
I. RF test signal was captured using ICS-1554 Digital Receiver card .The signal was under-sampled, down converted and transformed to frequency domain by performing FFT, using Labview.

Sampling frequency of ADC LTC 2209 = RF Signal frequency of radar transmitter NCO frequency for down conversion Windowing technique for FFT of data = Number of FFT points =

72 MHz = 206.5 MHz = 9.5 MHz Blackmann 4096

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Figure 11: Raw RF data with frequency 206.5MHz

Figure 12: Spectrum of Undersampled signal

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Figure 13: Spectrum of Downconverted signal

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Simulation model for the On-line processing of Wind profiler Radar system is done on MATLAB, for the following design specifications:

Sampling frequency = 72 MHz Pulse repetition frequency, PRF=8 kHz Width of each pulse, w =1e-6 sec Number of pulses generated =250 Carrier frequency of radar transmitter=206.5 MHz NCO frequency for down conversion=9.5 MHz Maximum Doppler shift=50 Hz Number of coherent integrated pulse=10 Decimation factor=72 Windowing technique=Rectangular
Transmitted pulse:

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Decimation and Filtering:

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Coherent Integration:

Normalization:
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Windowing:

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DELIVERABLES
Hardware 1. 64 bits PCI-X (PCI-Extended) slots based Work station compatible for ICS1554 2. High End processing System for Data Display 3. Large screen Auxiliary Display Monitor for presentation Radar Data Software Digital Signal Processing Source Code for DBS mode implementation.

DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE

All the activities of phase 1 to be completed within 4 weeks after receipt of order. Phase 2 to be completed, demonstrated and tested within 10 weeks after successful completion of phase 1. Phase 3 to be completed, demonstrated and tested within 15 weeks on completion of Phase 1.

TESTING & PROVING

The system will be proven on bench as well as in the site. The site functionality test will be conducted and certified in the presence ECIL rep. A comprehensive ATP document for phase 2 & phase 3 will be submitted and the same to be vetted at ECIL. ECIL is committed to support in the following areas. ECIL will provide necessary Input /Output data files required for Simulation and demonstration during Phase-I ECIL will provide Coherent Signal Generator for testing of ICS-1554Card. CSG will generate RF Signal with desired carrier frequency, ADC clock, and Reference clock.

TRAINING AND DOCUMENTATION

Adequate training to ECIL personnel along with necessary documents will be provided. ECIL personnel will be involved for each and every stage during design, development of the system. The following documents conforming to IEEE standards will be supplied in Hard Copy & Soft copy in CD.
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OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
The design and development will conform to General Radar Signal Processing standards. The integration of the system and demonstration of all the essential features will be carried out. In addition, System support will be available for at least three years after installation and commissioning. Training for 4 persons : 7 working Days Warranty and Support : 1 years

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