Digital Radar Implementation With Amplitude Predistortion

The modern advancements in digital electronics allow waveforms to be easily synthesized and captured using only digital electronics. The synthesis of radar waveforms using only digital electronics, such as Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) and Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) allows for a majority of the analog chain to be removed from the system. In order to create a constant amplitude waveform, the amplitude distortions must be compensated for. The method chosen to compensate for the amplitude distortions is to pre-distort the waveform so, when it is influenced by the system, the output waveform has a near constant amplitude modulus. The effects of the predistortion were observed to be successful in both range and range-Doppler radar implementations.