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- How do you calculate chirp time?
- What is a chirp in RF?
- Why do radars use chirps?
- What is chirp bandwidth?
How do you calculate chirp time?
△R = C/(2 * B) Therefore, bandwidth can be easily calculated. Now that extended bandwidth can be calculated, the idle time is shown to be a function of the extended bandwidth. At this point, we have calculated the total chirp time that meets our requirements.
What is a chirp in RF?
A change in frequency of Morse code from the desired frequency, due to poor stability in the RF oscillator, is known as chirp, and in the R-S-T system is given an appended letter 'C'.
Why do radars use chirps?
The chirp pulse compression process transforms a long duration frequency-coded pulse into a narrow pulse of greatly increased amplitude. It is a technique used in radar and sonar systems because it is a method whereby a narrow pulse with high peak power can be derived from a long duration pulse with low peak power.
What is chirp bandwidth?
The chirp bandwidth can be straightforwardly computed as the product of βr times the duration of the pulse, i.e., the chirp rate can be expressed as. (5.74) where Br is the transmitted bandwidth and Tp is the duration of the pulse. A linear instantaneous frequency results in a quadratic phase, i.e., (5.75) π π
