aiRadar Acquisition Designer

Our acquisition designer tool helps researchers get productive quickly. The tool provides useful information on image strategy, performance and ensures an image will be created when it is used. The bullets below match with what is presented in the images.

• Select a Radar Configuration (RRI-0100 selected)
• Select from existing Tx/Rx/Beambooks to load a configuration from the Database
• Alternatively, the user can edit any white field in the Designer to create a new Tx/Rx configuration
• Desired scene parameters can be updated which will change the Tx/Rx configurations to meet these requirements
• Additional information is provided to aid in design of the acquisition
• Click “New Tx Entry” to be prompted to save the current transmit configuration to the database
• Click “New Rx Entry” to be prompted to save the current receive configuration to the database
• Click “New aiRPL Entry” to generate a template aiRPL program from the parameters in the Acquisition Designer
• Acquisition Designer configurations can be saved and loaded by using the Save/Load configuration buttons

aiRPL Program Template:

• When the “New aiRPL Entry” button is clicked the aiRPL template program is generated
• The first two commands (LOAD_LUT and LOAD_BEAM_SEQ) set the beambook which defines how the program steers the beam
• A top level Repeat loop indicates the number of times the sequence is repeated (a sequence here is stepping through the entire beambook)
• The INIT_BURST() macro sets the beam index to the first beam in the beambook and repeats the PRI 32 times
• The BURST() macro increments to the next beam index and repeats the PRI 32 times