Analysis of Velocity Measurement of Radar Signal in Space Vehicle Application using VLSI Chip
E. N. Ganesh

Dr. E. N. Ganesh, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Vels University, Chennai, (Tamil Nadu), India.

Manuscript received on 03 February 2022 | Revised Manuscript received on 11 March 2022 | Manuscript Accepted on 15 March 2022 | Manuscript published on 30 March 2022 | PP: 16-20 | Volume-2 Issue-1, March 2022. | Retrieval Number: 100.1/ijvlsid.C1207031322 | DOI: 10.54105/ijvlsid.C1207.031322

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Abstract: The objective of the project is to design a low cost Spectral Monitor for a Space vehicle velocity measurement application, based on Doppler Shift principle by generating an radar signal source from earth station towards moving target device in space and processing received high speed analog 200MHz radar signal from target vehicle device through Antenna, analog pre-processing and FPGA based spectral analyzer. The hardware reconfigurable spectral analyzer design consist of ADC(500MSPS) Interface block, SRAM Memory(1024×16) block, Radix-2 FFT (16 bit DSP block) and LCD Display (Monitoring) driver algorithm implemented On-Chip SOC-FPGA system. The proposed algorithm can be used to meet the need of many real time application such as space exploration, wideband communication, command and control application. The desired algorithm is implemented on-chip reconfigurable hardware SOC-FPGA while keeping the cost, power and area of device low compared to general purpose processor and Embedded based microcontroller. The code architecture is described using hardware description language, VHDL and synthesized and simulated using Xilinx 12.2 ISE Design suite.

Keywords: System on Chip (SOC), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Analog to Digital Conversion (ADC), Hardware Descriptive Language (HDL), Fast Fourier Transform (FFT).
Scope of the Article: VLSI Circuits and Design