Giuseppe Webber
Heterogeneous CGRA Cells for FFT acceleration in FMCW radar systems.
Rel. Andrea Calimera. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Electronic Engineering, 2025
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Abstract
Efficient and reliable Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) computation is essential for radar signal processing, especially in real-time millimeter-wave (mmWave) Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) systems where requirements on throughput, latency, and power consumption are critical. Conventional platforms such as Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) inevitably involve trade- offs, as each technology faces inherent limitations in flexibility, energy efficiency, silicon area, and development complexity. This thesis addresses these challenges by designing a reconfigurable FFT accelerator on the Dynamically Reconfigurable Resource Array (DRRA), a coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture developed by the Silicon Large Grain Objects (SiLago) team at KTH.
The proposed design adapts to varying transform sizes and configurations, achieving high throughput and low latency with reduced power consumption
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