Traditionally, to reduce communication overheads because of bandwidth limitations in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), image compression techniques are used on high-resolution captures. Higher data reduction rates can ...
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Traditionally, to reduce communication overheads because of bandwidth limitations in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), image compression techniques are used on high-resolution captures. Higher data reduction rates can be achieved by first removing redundant parts of the capture prior to the application of image compression. To locate these redundant parts, biologically plausible visual saliency processing is used to isolate parts that seemed important based on visual perception. Although visual saliency proves to be an effective method in providing a distinctive difference between important and unimportant regions, computational complexity and memory requirements often impair implementation. This study presents an implementation of a low-memory visual saliency architecture with reduced computation complexity for data reduction in WSNs through salient patch transmission. A custom softcore microprocessor-based hardware implementation on a field programmable gate array is then used to verify the architecture. Real-time processing demonstrated that data reductions of more than 50% are achievable for simple to medium scenes without the application of image compression techniques.
A low-level rf control system was designed and built for an rf deflector, which is a quarter wave resonator, and was designed to deflect a secondary electron beam to measure the bunch length of an ion beam. The deflec...
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A low-level rf control system was designed and built for an rf deflector, which is a quarter wave resonator, and was designed to deflect a secondary electron beam to measure the bunch length of an ion beam. The deflector has a resonance frequency near 88 MHz, its required phase stability is approximately +/- 1 degrees and its amplitude stability is less than +/- 1%. The control system consists of analog input and output components and a digital system based on a field-programmablegatearray for signal processing. The system is cost effective, while meeting the stability requirements. Some basic properties of the control system were measured. Then, the capability of the rf control was tested using a mechanical vibrator made of a dielectric rod attached to an audio speaker system, which could induce regulated perturbations in the electric fields of the resonator. The control system was flexible so that its parameters could be easily configured to compensate for the disturbance induced in the resonator.
A field programmable gate array (FPGA) based hardware platform that is used to implement a digital, multi-gate pulsed Doppler ultrasound system for transcranial Doppler (TCD) use is described. The Doppler audio signal...
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A field programmable gate array (FPGA) based hardware platform that is used to implement a digital, multi-gate pulsed Doppler ultrasound system for transcranial Doppler (TCD) use is described. The Doppler audio signal is extracted from the digitised radio-frequency signal by matched filtering and suitable sampling. The system was configured to acquire Doppler signals from 16 depth locations and to display Doppler signal power versus depth as well as a sonogram from a user specified depth. The signal-to-noise performance of the system was comparable with that of a commercially available TCD unit for equivalent pulse repetition frequency and sample volume settings. The flexibility of the platform was used to demonstrate the feasibility of using coded transducer excitation and pulse compression techniques to improve axial resolution compared to a non-coded implementation. The axial resolution improvement was demonstrated using a flow phantom and measured using a vibrating wire phantom. The measured resolutions were 9.1 and 2.4 mm for the conventional and coded implementations, respectively. The reduction in signal-to-noise ratio of approximately 5 dB associated with the configuration using coded excitation was attributable to the frequency response characteristics of the transducer rather than the processing/technique used. This work demonstrates both the flexibility associated with an FPGA implementation of a Doppler ultrasound system and the potential for coded excitation to improve axial resolution in TCD systems. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Background: To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching sequence databases that may contain hun...
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Background: To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching sequence databases that may contain hundreds of millions of sequences, this algorithm becomes computationally expensive. Results: In this paper, we focused on accelerating the Smith-Waterman algorithm by using FPGA-based hardware that implemented a module for computing the score of a single cell of the SW matrix. Then using a grid of this module, the entire SW matrix was computed at the speed of field propagation through the FPGA circuit. These modifications dramatically accelerated the algorithm's computation time by up to 160 folds compared to a pure software implementation running on the same FPGA with an Altera Nios II softprocessor. Conclusion: This design of FPGA accelerated hardware offers a new promising direction to seeking computation improvement of genomic database searching.
supporting a variety of communication protocols for test support equipment has typically required extensive hardware and Input/Output (I/O) interfaces targeting each protocol specifically. Recent advanced designs in t...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467306997;9781467307000
supporting a variety of communication protocols for test support equipment has typically required extensive hardware and Input/Output (I/O) interfaces targeting each protocol specifically. Recent advanced designs in the past ten years have created more dynamic approaches by using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and embedded hardware to implement or simulate previous hardware I/O designs. The dynamic possibilities of FPGAs have recently been expanded with the introduction of Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration (DPR), which allows part of the FPGA to be reconfigured while the rest of the logic remains static. This paper evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of using DPR to interface with various communication protocols in test equipment.
In order to improve the real-time and flexible of FIR digital filter, a reconfigurable FIR filter system based on FPGA is designed. According to the filter specialties, the filter coefficients are calculated by the co...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783037853191
In order to improve the real-time and flexible of FIR digital filter, a reconfigurable FIR filter system based on FPGA is designed. According to the filter specialties, the filter coefficients are calculated by the computer. And the configured coefficients of the multistage FIR filter are downloaded to the chip. The filtering computing is completed by the FPGA. The filtered data is transmitted to the computer through the USB2.0 interface for further processing, such as displaying, analyzing and storing. The states conversion between coefficients configuring mode and filtering mode is finished by FSM (Finite State Machine), which ensures the system to work orderly. The experimental results demonstrated that the coefficients configuring of the system is easy, which can adjust the filter coefficients flexibly according to the actual demand, and the filter is effective, that it can effectively filter out the noise signals.
There are many kinds of ADC chips which are analog or analog-digital mixed at home and abroad. It can not be integrated into a pure digital chip, in this paper, a way to realize quasi-digital 16- bit ADC based on stoc...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783037853115
There are many kinds of ADC chips which are analog or analog-digital mixed at home and abroad. It can not be integrated into a pure digital chip, in this paper, a way to realize quasi-digital 16- bit ADC based on stochastic logic was given. Except few analog elements, all are digital circuits. The paper describes the design principle and presents the simulation and hardware test results based on FPGA chips produced by Altera show that the shortest conversion time can reach 0.8ms. The hardware test shows that the design is successful.
To realize filtering of high-speed input data, and aiming at the design method of systolic FIR digital filter, this paper proposes a design method of high-speed FIR filter based on FPGA. The states conversion between ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783037853191
To realize filtering of high-speed input data, and aiming at the design method of systolic FIR digital filter, this paper proposes a design method of high-speed FIR filter based on FPGA. The states conversion between coefficients configuring mode and filtering mode is finished by FSM (Finite State Machine), which ensures the system to work orderly. The experimental results demonstrated, it can reduce the input dimension and eliminate linear and nonlinear interference effectively. In addition, it is very suitable for hardware implementation due to its simple structure.
To solve the crossing-linkable polyethylene (XLPE) insulation compound purity evaluation problem, a high speed scanning measurement system was designed according to FPGA. With the updated information technology and ad...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783037853191
To solve the crossing-linkable polyethylene (XLPE) insulation compound purity evaluation problem, a high speed scanning measurement system was designed according to FPGA. With the updated information technology and advanced electronic devices, it is possible to develop a new inspecting technology for sorting, checking and evaluating material quality, by which defects microscopic images can be real-time recorded, processed and displayed. The result shows that this system can measure the size of impurity particles of XLPE cable materials correctly, it also can find out the accurate location and numbers of impurity particles. The resolving power of this method can reach 20 m and the error is less than 10%. The possibility that the impurity particles can be checked out is up to 100%.
作者:
Umamaheswari, B.Kamala, J.Anna Univ
Coll Engn Guindy Elect & Elect Engn Dept Madras 25 Tamil Nadu India Anna Univ
Coll Engn Guindy Elect & Commun Engn Dept Madras 25 Tamil Nadu India
This paper presents an effective use of User Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) of IEEE 1451.0-2007 standard in obtaining an integrated architecture for sensing / actuation and control of DC/DC converter module. ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9789881925244
This paper presents an effective use of User Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) of IEEE 1451.0-2007 standard in obtaining an integrated architecture for sensing / actuation and control of DC/DC converter module. Modularity is the major advantage of the proposed architecture, which allows application of the proposed concept to any system with new sensors / actuators. Implementation of the proposed integrated Transducer Interface Module (TIM) architecture is achieved in field programmable gate array (FPGA).
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