System-level microwave design: radar-based laboratory projects

System-level microwave design: radar-based laboratory projects

Two laboratory projects—a Doppler radar and a synthetic aperture radar (SAR)—designed to augment traditional electromagnetics education are proposed. The projects introduce students to component and system level design and expose them to modern computer-aided design (CAD) tools, microstrip and surface mount fabrication technologies, and industry standard test equipment and procedures. Additiona...

A Web-based Monitoring System for Multidisciplinary Design Projects

In today’s competitive environment, both industry and government agencies are under pressure to reduce the time and cost of multidisciplinary design projects. New tools have been introduced to assist in this process by facilitating the integration of and communication among diverse disciplinary codes. One such tool, a framework for multidisciplinary computational environments, is defined as a h...

Radar System Components and System Design

System-Level Types for Component-Based Design

For example, it is not part of the type signature of an object that the initialize() method must be called before the go() method. Temporal properties of an object (method x() must be invoked every 10ms) are also not part of the type signature. Work with active objects and actors [1][2] move in the right direction by being a bit more explicit about dynamic properties of the interfaces of compon...

System Level Design: a Platform-Based Approach

Preamble The guiding principle in the teaching and research agenda related to embedded systems is bringing system theory and computer science closer together. These two fields have drifted apart for years while we believe that the core of embedded systems intended as an engineering discipline lies in the marriage of the two approaches. While computer science traditionally deals with abstraction...