We demonstrate advanced transversal radio frequency (RF) and microwave functions based on a Kerr optical comb source generated by an integrated micro-ring resonator.We achieve extremely high performance for an optical true time delay aimed at tunable phased array antenna applications, as well as reconfigurable microwave photonic filters.Our results agree well with theory.We show that our true time delay would yield a phased array antenna with features that include high angular resolution and a wide range of beam steering angles, while the microwave photonic filters feature high Q factors, wideband tunability, and highly reconfigurable filtering shapes.These results show that our approach is a competitive solution to implementing reconfigurable, high performance and potentially low cost RF and microwave signal processing functions for applications including radar and communication systems.Photonic RF and microwave devices featuring delay-line (i.e., transversal) structures require multiple channel RF time delays.Traditionally, this has been achieved via discrete laser arrays [16,[22][23][24] or FBG arrays [14-15], which, although offering advantages, have resulted in significantly increased complexity, as well as reduced performance due to a limited number of optical wavelengths and other factors.Alternative approaches, including those based on optical frequency comb (OFC) sources [12], can mitigate this problem, although they too can suffer from drawbacks such as the need for cascaded high frequency electro-optic (EO) [2,[25][26][27][28][29][30] and Fabry-Perot EO [31] modulators that in turn require high-frequency RF sources.Kerr micro-comb sources [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39], particularly those based on CMOS-compatible platforms featuring a high nonlinear figure of merit [34][35][36], offer many advantages over discrete laser sources, such as the potential to provide a much higher number of wavelengths, a greatly reduced footprint and complexity, as well as significantly improved performance.In particular, for RF transversal functions the number of wavelengths dictates the available channel number of RF time delays.For PAAs, the number of radiating elements determines the beam-width, and so improved angular resolution can be achieved by enlarging the channel number.Similarly, for MPFs, extending the number of taps (channels) results in an increased filtering quality factor (QRF) and time-bandwidth product.In this paper, we propose and demonstrate advanced transversal photonic microwave and RF signal processing functions.We report the first multi-channel RF tunable microwave true time delay lines for PAAs based on an integrated on-chip micro-ring resonator (MRR) optical frequency comb source.By generating a broadband Kerr comb with a large number of comb lines, we significantly improve the performance and reduce the size, potential cost, and complexity of the true time delay device.By programming and shaping the optical comb, we show that this device is capable of achieving record high angular resolution and a wide range of beam steering angles with very little beam "squint" (variation in beam steering angle with RF frequency).Further, we demonstrate highly reconfigurable microwave filters by achieving a range of new functions including low pass, half-band highpass, half-band lowpass, band-stop, Nyquist, and bandpass microwave photonic filters (MPFs).We achieve wide center frequency tunability for the bandpass filters without the need for hardware tuning devices such as tunable delay lines, i..e., by only adjusting the tap weights.Our experimental results agree with theory, verifying the feasibility of our approach towards the realization of high performance, versatile, microwave and RF signal transversal processing functions with potentially lower cost and footprint than other solutions.The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section 2 introduces the RF and microwave true time delays based on Kerr combs and their applications to PAAs and MPFs.The details of the MRR for comb generation are described as well.In Section 3, we introduce the PAA based on the RF true time delays and analyze the enhanced performance brought about by the use of Kerr combs.Section 4 introduces the microwave photonic filters based on RF true time delays, and demonstrates the enhancement in Q factor brought about by the use of Kerr combs as well as the versatile filter functions achieved by means of line-by-line comb shaping.Section 5 concludes the paper.