Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research
Title
Multi-beam RF aperture using multiplierless FFT approximation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 11-20-2014
Abstract
Multiple independent radio-frequency (RF) beams find applications in communications, radio astronomy, radar and microwave imaging. An N-point fast Fourier transform (FFT) applied spatially across an array of receiver antennas provides N-independent RF beams at N/2 log(2) N multiplier complexity. Here, a low-complexity multiplierless approximation for the 8-point FFT is presented for RF beamforming, using only 26 additions. The algorithm provides eight beams that closely resemble the antenna array patterns of the traditional FFT-based beam-former albeit without using multipliers. The proposed FFT-like algorithm was verified on-chip using a Xilinx Virtex-6 Lx240T field programmable gate array (FPGA) device. The FPGA implementation indicated bandwidth of 369 MHz for each of the independent receive-mode RF beams.
Publication Title
Electronics Letters
Volume
50
Issue
24
First Page
1788
Last Page
U149
Recommended Citation
Suarez, D.; Cintra, R J.; Bayer, F M.; Sengupta, A.; Kulasekera, S.; and Madanayake, Arjune, "Multi-beam RF aperture using multiplierless FFT approximation" (2014). Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research. 13.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/ece_ideas/13