February 10, 2017
Beamforming techniques have become very important in the fields of radar, electronic warfare (EW), sonar, wireless communication, and medical imaging. These enable continuous formation of beams from array antennas (or array transducers) towards a tracked target - or a moving user in the case of wireless communication - and cancellation of all the interfering signals coming from other angles. For tactical or airborne radar and EW solutions, the execution speed of the beamforming algorithms and the low power consumption are critical. In these situations, VPX high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) hybrid field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and CPU systems appear to be the best suited approach.