Field Programmable Gate Array Based Control Signal Generator for Pulsed Radar

The objective of this paper is to present the architecture design and implementation of a software defined hardware module called Control Signal Generator (CSG) for pulsed RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) application. It is a digital, programmable, application-specific control timing signal generator for Disaster Management Synthetic Aperture Radar (DM-SAR)[1]. This module is a slave controller which receives command through asynchronous serial interface and generates programmable timings. Architecture evolved and the module is developed using Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language (VHDL)[2] and successfully implemented on Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) XCV600-6HQ240 [3]