A Fast-Performing Error Simulation of Wideband Radiation Patterns for Large Planar Phased Arrays With Overlapped Subarray Architecture

• Published in: IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 1779 - 1788
• Main Authors: Ricciardi, Gerald F., Connelly, James R., Krichene, Hedi A., Ho, Minhtri T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2014; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Antenna radiation patterns; Architecture (computers); Array signal processing; Arrays; Beamforming; Computation; Computational modeling; Compute unified device architecture (CUDA); Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Data processing; digital beamforming; error modeling; Errors; graphical processing unit (GPU); Graphics processing units; overlapped phased arrays; parallel processing; Phased arrays; radar; Run time (computers); sidelobe level performance; Space shuttle; stretch processing; Wideband; wideband radiation pattern

We present an efficient solution for the fast computation of wideband radiation patterns of large planar arrays with overlapped subarray architecture, subject to beamforming errors. We obtain very good results fully hosting the simulation on a desktop platform, and even better results implementing a...