EDHPC 2025 - 2nd European Data Handling & Data Processing Conference

Synthetic Aperture Radar Back-Projection using Adaptive Intelligent Engines in AMD Versal Adaptive SoCs

16 Oct 2025, 10:50

20m

Conference room

Presentation On-board Signal Processing Algorithms for RF applications such as SDR, 5G/6G gNb, AIS, ADS-B, Beamforming, Modems, PNT, Positioning, Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing, Radio interferometer processing RF OBP (SAR)

Speaker

Mr Ken O'Neill (AMD)

Description

This paper describes the implementation of a reference design for Synthetic Aperture Radar using a Back-Projection algorithm on Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) vector processors in the AMD Versal™ XQRVC1902 adaptive SoC, which is qualified for space flight.

Presentation materials

EDHPC 2025 Paper SAR Back Projection in AMD Versal Rollins and O'Neill v1.1 2025-09-15.pdf

Synthetic Aperture Radar Back Projection using AIE in AMD Versal™ Adaptive SoCs - IEEE EDHPC Submission v1 2025-09-15.pdf