Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

We present a design exploration strategy for the beamformer system, an example of a typical DSP system. In order to do so, we first define a parameterized design template for the beamformer and for a FIR filter, since the filtering operation is a part of the overall beamformer system. We then discuss some approaches for varying the design parameters for the filter and the beamformer system, under constraints imposed by technology or the designer.