Time-to-digital convertors (TDCs) based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) are becoming more and more popular. Multi-measurement is an effective method to improve TDC precision beyond the cell delay limitation. H...
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Time-to-digital convertors (TDCs) based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) are becoming more and more popular. Multi-measurement is an effective method to improve TDC precision beyond the cell delay limitation. However, the implementation of TDC with multi-measurement on FPGAs manufactured with 28 nm and more advanced process is facing new challenges. Benefiting from the ones-counter encoding scheme, which was developed in our previous work, we implement a ring oscillator multi-measurement TDC on a Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA. Using the two TDC channels to measure time-intervals in the range (0 ns-30 ns), the average RMS precision can be improved to 5.76 ps, meanwhile the logic resource usage remains the same with the one-measurement TDC, and the TDC dead time is only 22 ns. The investigation demonstrates that the multi-measurement methods are still available for current main-stream FPGAs. Furthermore, the new implementation in this paper could make the trade-off among the time precision, resource usage and TDC dead time better than ever before.
In this paper, we propose a family of circulant systems with conservative property. Various dynamical properties of the circulant systems are derived and investigated. Bifurcation plots are derived and presented for a...
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In this paper, we propose a family of circulant systems with conservative property. Various dynamical properties of the circulant systems are derived and investigated. Bifurcation plots are derived and presented for a system and the Lyapunov exponents are derived to show the existence of chaotic oscillations, and their sum being zero confirms the conservativeness for certain values of parameters. One of the proposed systems is then implemented in field programmable gate array (FPGA) to show the hardware reliability. We used the hardware-software co-simulation to see the phase portraits of the FPGA implemented system. The discrete integrators required for solving the initial value problem are implemented using the Euler's method. The register transfer level schematics of the FPGA implemented system and the resources used for the implementations are presented.
We present characterization of a lock-in amplifier based on a field programmable gate array capable of demodulation at up to 50 MHz. The system exhibits 90 nV/root Hz of input noise at an optimum demodulation frequenc...
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We present characterization of a lock-in amplifier based on a field programmable gate array capable of demodulation at up to 50 MHz. The system exhibits 90 nV/root Hz of input noise at an optimum demodulation frequency of 500 kHz. The passband has a full-width half-maximum of 2.6 kHz for modulation frequencies above 100 kHz. Our code is open source and operates on a commercially available platform.
In the early 2000s, industry switched to multicore microprocessors to address semiconductors' speed and power limits. However, the change was unsuccessful, leading to dire claims that "Moore's law is endi...
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In the early 2000s, industry switched to multicore microprocessors to address semiconductors' speed and power limits. However, the change was unsuccessful, leading to dire claims that "Moore's law is ending." This column suggests that while the approach was sound, it needed a deeper architectural transformation. Industry has since discovered a suitable architecture, but work remains on software to support it.
A new digital instrument for timing of events is presented. It is based on a reconfigurable, high-performance, 16-channel time-to-digital converter implemented in a Xilinx 7 Series 28-nm field programmable gate array ...
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A new digital instrument for timing of events is presented. It is based on a reconfigurable, high-performance, 16-channel time-to-digital converter implemented in a Xilinx 7 Series 28-nm field programmable gate array device. Each channel provides timestamps with a least significant bit of 2 ps that states the resolution, whereas instead the single-shot precision is below 12.5 ps rms with the possibility of multihit measures at the maximum rate of 20 MHz. The default width of the full-scale range is 157 mu s that can be extended at users choosing up to 15 days by means of proper time tagging procedures made available. The instrument achieves performance in terms of precision, resolution, and full-scale range of measurement at the state-of-art of existing solutions. The novelty is that besides performance, the presented instrument is totally reconfigurable by the user both in the hardware and in the firmware parts. Moreover, novel techniques of event acquisition (e.g., level-zero trigger) are introduced. These further features are not present in any other instrument available nor in the literature or in commerce and constitute a difference with respect to all referenced instruments. Published under license by AIP Publishing.
An onboard telemetry system has access to a limited wireless bandwidth due to a high-speed airborne vehicle and large channel changing characteristics. The inefficiency of data placement happens at the transmission en...
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An onboard telemetry system has access to a limited wireless bandwidth due to a high-speed airborne vehicle and large channel changing characteristics. The inefficiency of data placement happens at the transmission end if there is a large deviation between the packet rate and the frame rate for serial channels. For one of the current examples, the data rate of the transmitted signal can be decreased from 22 Mbps by straightforward placement in the major frame and to 3 Mbps using the novel algorithm introduced in this paper. The mathematical model in the subject is termed the bandwidth-efficient frame structure algorithm. A Xilinx Spartan 3E series has been used to frame the acquired data at the transmitting end and to deframe at the receiving end. The Inter-Range Instrumentation Group 106 standard has been used for the frame structure.
Unlike the conventional field programmable gate array (FPGA) based time-to-digital converter (TDC) with clock sampling architecture, the TDC with event sampling architecture implemented in this paper propagates the sy...
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Unlike the conventional field programmable gate array (FPGA) based time-to-digital converter (TDC) with clock sampling architecture, the TDC with event sampling architecture implemented in this paper propagates the system clock signal along the tapped-delay line (TDL) and the TDL status is sampled by a hit signal for time interpolation. Since there are several "1-0" and "0-1" transitions in the sampled TDL status, the TDC naturally realizes multiple measurements in parallel without increasing the resource consumption and the measurement dead time. Using a Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA, we increase the number of equivalent TDC bins approximately to twice the number of physical delay cells in the TDL, which means the TDC resolution is about twice as good as the original. The average RMS precision is measured as 5.3 ps with two identical TDC channels measuring the time intervals in the range 0 to 20 ns. The proposed encoding scheme is so efficient that the TDC measurement throughput can reach 350 M samples per second. The test results show that the event sampling architecture is effective in FPGA as well. The performance that can be achieved is comparable with the performance of their counterparts that use the clock sampling architecture.
In this work, we report on the development of a methodology for long term reliability analysis of digital circuits implemented in FPGA. For this, a simulation environment for FPGA has been extended using Python to int...
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In this work, we report on the development of a methodology for long term reliability analysis of digital circuits implemented in FPGA. For this, a simulation environment for FPGA has been extended using Python to introduce aging. The aging laws for Look-Up Tables have been integrated by introducing additional variables and equations. They accurately describe the drifts in the propagation time caused by Hot Carrier Injection and Negative Bias Temperature Instability degradation mechanisms. An analytical model of the failure time of the digital circuit as a function of the clock frequency has been proposed based on the aging law parameters. Finally, the developed methodology has been applied to a CORDIC circuit implemented in FPGA.
The prerequisite of data security on network has turned out to be more important. Cryptography is a technique to give data privacy, acceptability and integrity. There are such significant number of difficulties to rea...
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The prerequisite of data security on network has turned out to be more important. Cryptography is a technique to give data privacy, acceptability and integrity. There are such significant number of difficulties to realize cryptography algorithm, for example, execution time, memory requirement, and intention control. In this work, a high secure and low power use of cache memory is implemented for utilizing a new cryptography method specifically named as Undeviating Adaptive Sheltered Cryptography (UASC) algorithm. The outline of the proposed memory has been altered by the expansion of all validation supervisors required by the equipment usage of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). In addition, UASC has been incorporated into real time application to permit a self-encryption based on full self-rule. Therefore, compared with the conventional design comprising of a crypto-block and an isolated memory, this new method will prompt an imperative decrease of data interactions among the encryption procedure. The proposed work is depicted utilizing Verilog language, synthesized and actualized utilizing Xilinx ISE suite based field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. Synthesis results demonstrate that the proposed configuration accomplishes higher efficiency than the previous executions by decreasing area while keeping up a moderate throughput/Look UpTable (LUT) ratio. The proposed configuration is additionally more productive as far as power utilization is concerned. As compared with conventional method, the proposed Undeviating Adaptive Sheltered Cryptography achieves low power consumption for 23.02 mu w and execution time is 9.5 s. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Based on the adaptive logic module structure implemented in a 28 nm field programmable gate array (FPGA), we propose an interleaved sampling method, together with bin realignment operation, to enable time-to-digital c...
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Based on the adaptive logic module structure implemented in a 28 nm field programmable gate array (FPGA), we propose an interleaved sampling method, together with bin realignment operation, to enable time-to-digital converter (TDC) implementation. The tap status is sampled twice in a single physical channel, meaning that TDC precision beyond the cell delay limit can be anticipated. Two TDC channels were implemented in a 28 nm Cyclone-V FPGA, and the effectiveness of the proposed method was evaluated. After calibration, the TDC produced a timing resolution of 6.6 ps root mean square or 5.8 ps per least significant bit. Published under license by AIP Publishing.
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