Typical radio frequency (RF) digital beamformers can be highly complex. In addition to a suitable antenna array, they require\nnumerous receiver chains, demodulators, data converter arrays, and digital signal processors. To recover and reconstruct the\nreceived signal, synchronization is required since the analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), digital-to-analog converters (DACs),\nfield programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and local oscillators are all clocked at different frequencies. In this article, we present a\nclock synchronization topology for a multichannel on-site coding receiver (OSCR) using the FPGA as a master clock to drive all\nRF blocks.This approach reduces synchronization errors by a factor of 8, when compared to conventional digital beamformer.
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