The invention discloses a
broadband beam pointing switching method based on an FPGA, and belongs to the technical field of digital phased arrays. The method comprises the steps that the FPGA receives and caches array configuration parameters; time
delay filter coefficients and phase shifter coefficients of the array elements are calculated in parallel based on a singing function and a
cordic algorithm; quantizing the coefficients, and pre-storing the quantized coefficients in an RAM (
Random Access Memory) according to beam pointing; judging
beam switching according to an automatic timing or external instruction mode, reading a coefficient corresponding to a target direction, and issuing the coefficient to each
processing unit; an FIR filter and a phase shifter are reconfigured, and
broadband signal time domain beam forming is achieved through a multi-phase filtering structure; and carrying out
gain normalization and truncation correction on the
composite signal and then outputting the
composite signal. According to the invention, a traditional DSP +
FPGA architecture is abandoned, the FPGA independently completes coefficient calculation and beam forming, through pre-storage,
assembly line issuing and multi-phase
processing, the beam pointing switching speed and the synthesis efficiency are significantly improved, and the method is suitable for
broadband beam forming systems with high real-time requirements, such as
radar and communication.