OPERA-DSP
Open hardware FMCW Radar signal processing in FPGA
Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar is essential for applications such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, environmental monitoring, and security, enabling high-resolution object detection and speed estimation. However, to fully leverage FMCW radar data, digital signal processing (DSP) techniques must be applied in real time to extract meaningful information. The OPERA-DSP project aims to develop an open-source FMCW radar DSP hardware library, making radar signal processing more accessible to researchers and developers. It will provide essential IP cores, including windowing functions, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), magnitude computation, and Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) detection. To simplify adoption, OPERA-DSP will integrate these DSP libraries with a RISC-V core and develop an FPGA-based design, complemented by scripts for automated bitstream generation.
- The project's own website: https://github.com/opera-platform/opera-dsp
This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.
