%0 Generic %1 rother2023synthetic %A Rother, Niklas %A Mätzner, Leonard %A Jääskeläinen, Pekka %A Leppänen, Topi %A Schleusner, Jens Karsten %A Blume, Holger Christoph %B International Radar Conference 2023 %D 2023 %K Energy-efficiency SAR TTA backprojection myown %R 10.15488/15965 %T Synthetic Aperture Radar Algorithms on Transport Triggered Architecture Processors using OpenCL %X Live SAR imaging from small UAVs is an emerging field. On-board processing of the radar data requires high-performance and energy-efficient platforms. One candidate for this are Transport Triggered Architecture (TTA) processors. We implement Backprojection and Backprojection Autofocus on a TTA processor specially adapted for this task using OpenCL. The resulting implementation is compared to other platforms in terms of energy efficiency. We find that the TTA is on-par with embedded GPUs and surpasses other OpenCL-based platforms. It is outperformed only by a dedicated FPGA implementation. %@ 9781665482783

@conference{rother2023synthetic, abstract = {Live SAR imaging from small UAVs is an emerging field. On-board processing of the radar data requires high-performance and energy-efficient platforms. One candidate for this are Transport Triggered Architecture (TTA) processors. We implement Backprojection and Backprojection Autofocus on a TTA processor specially adapted for this task using OpenCL. The resulting implementation is compared to other platforms in terms of energy efficiency. We find that the TTA is on-par with embedded GPUs and surpasses other OpenCL-based platforms. It is outperformed only by a dedicated FPGA implementation.}, added-at = {2024-02-05T16:20:37.000+0100}, author = {Rother, Niklas and Mätzner, Leonard and Jääskeläinen, Pekka and Leppänen, Topi and Schleusner, Jens Karsten and Blume, Holger Christoph}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2efaa6b8b769ca8f3b20e6fd70af18d58/fabcho}, booktitle = {International Radar Conference 2023}, comment = {Funding Information: Niklas Rother thanks T. Fiedler for his help with the ASIC synthesis. Tampere University authors thank Academy of Finland (decisions #331344 and #353199) 10.15488/15965}, doi = {10.15488/15965}, interhash = {a2f4d2e881af78ca0d12f5fb2a3d1ae3}, intrahash = {efaa6b8b769ca8f3b20e6fd70af18d58}, isbn = {9781665482783}, keywords = {Energy-efficiency SAR TTA backprojection myown}, month = dec, timestamp = {2024-03-05T15:39:40.000+0100}, title = {Synthetic Aperture Radar Algorithms on Transport Triggered Architecture Processors using OpenCL}, year = 2023 }