This thesis aims at the application of the multicarrier(MC) CDMA on the design and simulation of the programmable modulation waveforms for the phased array radar. Using different modulations, such as 16QAM/64QAM, to improve its anti-jamming capability, can change the MC-CDMA waveforms of the radar. The target Doppler frequency is estimated by utilizing the MC-CDMA waveform characteristics and the maximum likelihood rule. In this thesis, a modified quarter maximum likelihood rule is purposed to estimate the target Doppler estimation. The simulated results demonstrate the Doppler estimation accuracy can be improved for low signal to noise ratio of the receivers. TI 320C6701 DSP evaluation module is used in an experimental platform to realize a programmable MC-CDMA detector prototype.