Half-Day Workshop
Hands on Phased Array using Open Source Hardware and Software
Presenters: Jon Kraft, Principal Engineer, Field Applications
Bob Broughton, Senior Director, Product Line Management
Peter Delos, Senior Principal Engineer, Mixed Signal
Robin Getz, Director, SW Systems Design Engineering
Customer Experts: Ball Aerospace, Lockheed, and Colorado University Boulder
Date: Monday, June 20
Time: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Phased array communications and radar systems are finding increased use in a variety of applications. This places a greater importance on training engineers and rapidly prototyping new phased array concepts. While both have historically been difficult and expensive to do, a recent open source offering--the ADALM-PHASER--allows real beamforming hardware to be used for education, project proposals, and product development. This workshop will introduce ADALM-PHASER with lectures and hands on labs covering: software defined radio (SDR), phased array beamforming (steering angle and beam formation), antenna impairments (side lobes/tapering, grating lobes, beam squint, quantization sidelobes), Monopulse tracking implementation, and simple radar algorithm design. Each of these topics will be addressed with a short lecture, followed by participants using the ADALM-PHASER hardware to directly explore the lecture topic.