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The high-speed camera is an imaging device that records a particular transient state or all of the high-speed processes. It can accurately record the transient process of the high-speed target in real time and thus allow us to achieve the purpose of analysis of high-speed process through the slow motion playback. So the high-speed camera becomes an important tool for the study of the transient phenomena...
The data transmission is fairly quick and easy in recent years. Nowadays, there are many serial data transmission methods, such as I2C, SPI, RS-232, USB (Universal Serial Bus), and so on. Recently, USB not only works with convenience but also transmits data fast. It becomes a standard peripheral interface between FPGA development board and personal computer (PC). To satisfy those requirements, the...
A physically unclonable function (PUF) circuit extracts unique identification data from device variability, and it is an important technology for authentication and cryptographic key generation, as a countermeasure against counterfeiting of devices, etc. We developed and evaluated a PUF chip that included several PUF architectures using the SOTB technology. We designed a prototype of a USB stick-sized...
This paper introduces a newly developed Object-Oriented Open Software Architecture designed for supporting security applications, while leveraging on the capabilities offered by dedicated Open Hardware devices. Specifically, we target the SEcube™ platform, an Open Hardware security platform based on a 3D SiP (System on Package) designed and produced by Blu5 Group. The platform integrates three components...
This paper presents a SCORBOT-ER III type robotic arm which can be controlled only with an FPGA board. The robotic arm is an industrial/educational robotic arm which can execute a high number of tasks, but instead of a computer, only an FPGA development board is the control system. The robotic arm can be used also as a Sun tracker robotic arm. If the position of the sun in tracked the solar panel's...
One of the most important application areas of signal processing (SP) is, without a doubt, the software-defined radio (SDR) field [1]-[3]. Although their introduction dates back to the 1980s, SDRs are now becoming the dominant technology in radio communications, thanks to the dramatic development of SP-optimized programmable hardware, such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and digital signal...
Neuromorphic systems mimic the functionality and communication protocol of biological neurons with efforts to design the most size and power efficient computing systems. We demonstrate the capability of an in-house neural array of 4080 Mihalas-Niebur neurons designed in 0.5μm CMOS technology to perform various event-based image processing tasks including warping and filtering.
Link Training and Status State Machine (LTSSM) is a state machine in Universal Serial Bus (USB) which is defined for link connectivity and the link power management. LTSSM consists of 12 distinct states which are characterized depending on their functionalities. This paper reveals the FPGA implementation of LTSSM providing with USB 3.1 specifications with a support of USB 3.0 and 2.0 specifications...
In this paper, we present a UART-USB interface converter design based on FPGA, which implements asynchronous serial communication protocol and USB protocols conversion. Design is implied by Hardware Description Language using modular design, it can be integrated into different SoC system. After Modelsim functional simulation and FPGA simulation with two computers, we verify the feasibility of the...
Human machine interactions plays a vital role in numerous applications such as biomedical, communication systems, automobiles and also in commercial electronic equipment. During surgeries, utilizing a robotic arm to perform the task will help in maintaining a non-infectious environment, thereby aid in the speedy recovery of patients. During industrial inspection of materials or products, usage of...
This experiment presents a robotic arm control in the 3D space using marker detection. The markers have different colors, and are placed at the joints of the robotic arm. The colored markers are distinguished with image recognition algorithm using stereo cameras. The control platform is an FPGA development board running Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS graphical operating system. There were two implementations...
SpaceFibre is a new technology for use onboard spacecraft that provides point-to-point and networked interconnections at Gigabit rates with in-built Quality of Service and Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery. The SpaceFibre standard is virtually finished, with the ECSS standardisation activity to be ended this year. There is a need for equipment to support the development and testing of applications...
An ECG monitoring system is implemented by using an android smart phone, an FPGA chip, a comparator, a resistor, a capacitor and an ECG front-end amplifier circuit. The FPGA chip includes a digital circuit block for delta modulator and a USB 1.1 PHY/LINK. The digital circuit block for delta modulator includes a sampler(D flip-flop), a sinc filter and a FIR filter. The delta modulator consists of the...
From the point of view of system development, this paper introduces a FPGA based parallel AD acquisition board and its implementation process. The board uses 24-bit 8 channels of TI to synchronize the sampling chip ADS1278 to synchronize the input signals of the 8 input signals. FPGA uses Altera's EP2AGX45F572, Nios II processor running on it as the core of data processing. Communication between CY7C68013...
Neuromorphic systems are engineering solutions that take inspiration from biological neural systems. They use spike-or event-based representation and codification of the information. This codification allows performing complex computations, filters, classifications and learning in a pseudo-simultaneous way. Small incremental processing is done per event, which shows useful results with very low latencies...
This live demonstration features a vision chip based on a neighborhood level parallel processing paradigm. Processors are physically embedded within groups of pixels, complete with memory and algorithmic capabilities controlled by a custom instruction set. This results in a scalable resolution, parallel processing vision chip with flexible programmability that can perform a wide variety of image and...
This paper develops a high speed data acquisition card (DAQ) based on FPGA for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MALDI TOF-MS). Time interleaved analog-to-digital conversion based on parallelism is an effective way to meet the requirement of the ultra-fast sampling rate up to 3 Gsps. Multi-waveform accumulation algorithm is used to obtain mass spectrum with...
This paper presents a real-time multi-modal spiking Deep Neural Network (DNN) implemented on an FPGA platform. The hardware DNN system, called n-Minitaur, demonstrates a 4-fold improvement in computational speed over the previous DNN FPGA system. The proposed system directly interfaces two different event-based sensors: a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) and a Dynamic Audio Sensor (DAS). The DNN for this...
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are by now common in industrial applications and research. The industry utilizes FPGAs for prototyping, small scale hardware productions, and telecommunication hardware. The deployment of FPGAs in research is often High Performance Computing (HPC) centric. But FPGAs are not used in General Purpose Computing (GPC) very often because of many factors, including...
FPGAs are becoming increasingly attractive — thanks to the improvement of their capacities and their performances. Today, FPGAs represent an efficient design solution for numerous embedded solutions. There are several alternatives for configuring these FPGAs. However, these configuration solutions are vulnerable and often require significant up-front design effort and time. This paper proposes a simple,...
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