Designing a Generic, Software-Defined Multimode Radar Simulator for FPGAs Using Simulink® HDL Coder and Speedgoat Real-Time Hardware

We present a method for designing and realising Software-Defined Radar systems using Industry Standard software tools and COTS hardware. We describe how we built a generic multimode surveillance radar system in software, and how to interface the system to external RF systems by leveraging Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Using these techniques, we are able to increase simulation fidelity while reducing time to build and test our models.