1.Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; 2.Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging Laboratory, Beijing 100190, China; 3.University of Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Abstract:
The SAR imaging system is timeconsuming, which is developed based on central processing unit (CPU), because of the huge computation of SAR image processing, making realtime imaging impossible. Based on Computed Unified Device Architecture, This study proposes a new plan for realtime SAR imaging operated on graphic processing unit (GPU) which works for multiple workingmode SAR. This new proposal makes the plan work with small GPU memory by dividing SAR data into pieces, uses the asynchronous execution of multistream technology to cut down the time wasting in data transfer, optimizes memory management to get less access time of memory and uses lightweight function of special function unit (SFU) to reduce clock cycle. All computational resources are totally exploited because this plan is suitable for multi GPU. It has been shown by an experiment on an NVIDIA GT740M and INTEL Q6600 that the proposed plan has an acceleration ratio of nearly 150. The proposed realtime SAR imaging system improves the imaging efficiency greatly and has a better application future.