README.md

EVALKIT SiRad Simple® Python GUI

Python library for EVALKIT SiRad Simple®.

This code has been wrote for laboratory's activities during the Radar Systems class, within the Master Degree in Telecommunication Engineering at University of Pisa.

🔥 MATLAB implementation coming soon 🔥

Link for configuration calculator: http://rustafun.pythonanywhere.com/ - it is not needed if the Python GUI is used.

TO-DO-LIST - Radar Board commands and control

• Conversion from string of bit to string of hex to write the commands
• Set bandwidth
• Search for the proper serial device
• Set Self Trigger Delay
• Added system configuration handler
• Added baseband configuration handler
• Added short commands
• Modified baseband configuration handler: added controls over downsampling, number of ramps per frame and number of samples per frame
• Modified baseband configuration handler: add control over ADC ClkDiv
• Other control functions

Note: a lot of settings of above functions are still hardcoded.

TO-DO-LIST - GUI

• Create main, radar and processor module
• Bandwidth, Gain, Samples and Ramps configuration
• Improve code readability and add comments
• Add selector to switch between spectrum and RDMap
• Add processing options ( windowing selection, low-pass and high-pass filtering, peak detection ..)
• Finalize base radar settings
• Remove timer from GUI and trigger update using Queue signaling
• Add "max hold" function
• Add grid to plot

TO-DO-LIST - MATLAB implementation

• 2D CFAR detector
• MATLAB GUI?
• Update the README.md about the MATLAB code with the useful information regarding the data format of the .json files

Anaconda usage

lab-radar@labradar-Precision-T1500:~$ conda env create -f SiliconRadar_Env.yml

Citation

Please cite it as below.

@software{Radar_System_Laboratory_2022,
 author = {Mancuso, Francesco and Meucci, Giulio},
 month = {11},
 title = {{Radar System Laboratory}},
 version = {1.0.0},
 year = {2022}
}

Authors

Giulio Meucci
Francesco Mancuso