Case Study: Architecture-Level Development of a Pulse-Doppler Radar System |
Problem Statement System-level design of a pulse-doppler radar system requires top-down decompositions of goals into layers of requirements, followed by a bottom-up implementation of the system from theatre components.
Design Goal
Operations Concept Our long-term development objective is to create an interactive design environment where the specifications for system components are found online. Component specifications will basically say "...if you supply a required set of inputs, then the component will gurantee a minimum level of performance (output). Top-Down System-Level Development The flowdown of requirements to the system architecture might be as follows:
Figure 1. Flowdown of Requirements to System Architecture for Pulse-Doppler Radar. Reuse of System Components. Radar design is driven by "radar range" equations and trade-off among terms (e.g., transmitter power vs. antenna gain). |
Section 3-1: June, 2003. |