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Matrix transposition is a very critical operation in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging systems. This study presents an improved corner turning memory solution for real-time SAR imaging processing. Based on the sub-matrix three-dimensional mapping method, the efficiency of matrix transposing is greatly increased. However, in sliding spotlight mode, a novel SAR imaging mode, the amount of raw data is increased too large to directly use the above method. In this study, a joint address mapping strategy for two pieces of double data rate 3 synchronous dynamic random-access memory is used to meet the needs of the amount of data and make up for the lack of original method. The experimental results show that this method can get an improved and balanced two-dimensional access efficiency for sliding spotlight mode SAR imaging processing.
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