Wideband signal transceiver module with a Doppler shift function

Rev Sci Instrum. 2018 Dec;89(12):125110. doi: 10.1063/1.5066322.

Abstract

The wideband signal transceiver module forms the core component of the radar signal target simulator and the key module in measuring the Doppler shift. In this paper, we present a design for a miniaturized wideband signal transceiver module based on a PXIe bus, with an operating frequency range of 65 MHz-3 GHz, an instantaneous measurement bandwidth of 800 MHz on a standard 3U (where 1U = 4.445 cm) board with three slots. The module adopts a zero intermediate frequency transceiver, and the baseband uses two analog to digital converters, a field programmable gate array, and two digital to analog converters as the core hardware architecture. The module combines key technologies including variable-frequency local oscillator synthesis, radio-frequency broadband signal conditioning, and high-speed high-resolution baseband signal acquisition and generation. This paper describes a novel design for the Doppler shift function. Considering the limited size and volume of the module, Doppler shift technology combining a complex signal and a real signal was adopted to achieve full band coverage with an operating frequency range of 65 MHz-3 GHz. We verified that this module could generate the Doppler shift in the frequency band from -400 Hz to 400 Hz in steps of 2 Hz and with an error of ±2 Hz.