Improvement of the performance of FM-CW radar systems by using direct digital synthesizers: comparison with voltage controlled oscillators

Conference Paper (2006)
Author(s)

J Figueras i Ventura (TU Delft - International Research Centre for Telecommunication and Radar)

Herman Russchenberg (TU Delft - Microwave Technology and Systems for Radar)

Research Group
International Research Centre for Telecommunication and Radar
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Publication Year
2006
Research Group
International Research Centre for Telecommunication and Radar
Pages (from-to)
343-346
ISBN (print)
8372076219

Abstract

Linear frequency modulated continuous wave (LFM-CW) radars require high linearity and good phase noise characteristics of its modulated signal to obtain a good resolution and sensitivity. Direct digital Synthesis (DDS) is becoming an increasingly competitive alternative to traditional Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCO) to perform the modulation. Although ther are plenty of puvlications describing the performance of the DDS and he VCO as applied in FM-CW radars. In this paper the performance of DDS is analyzed both theoretically and with measurements. The performance of DDS is analyzed both theoretically and with measurements. The performance of DDS in a linear frequency modulated continuous wave (LFM-CW) radar system, (the Transportable Atmospheric Radar TARA developed in IRCTR), is compared to a VCO demonstrating its superiority. DDS is , therefore, expected to play an important role in radar sytems in the near future.

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