Search results for "Gate array"
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FPGA based digital lock-in amplifier for fNIRS systems
2018
Lock-In Amplifiers (LIA) represent a powerful technique helping to improve signals detectability when low signal to noise ratios are experienced. Continuous Wave functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (CW-fNIRS) systems for e-health applications usually suffer of poor detection due to the presence of strong attenuations of the optical recovering path and therefore small signals are severely dipped in a high noise floor. In this work a digital LIA system, implemented on a Zynq® Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), has been designed and tested to verify the quality of the developed solution, when applied in fNIRS systems. Experimental results have shown the goodness of the proposed solutions.
Enabling partially reconfigurable IP cores parameterisation and integration using MARTE and IP-XACT
2012
International audience; This paper presents a framework which facilitates the parameterization and integration of IP cores into partially reconfigurable SoC platforms, departing from a high-level of abstraction. The approach is based in a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) methodology, which exploits two widely used standards for Systems-on-Chip specification, MARTE and IP-XACT. The presented work deals with the deployment level of the MDE approach, in which the abstract components of the platform are first linked to the lower level IP-XACT counterparts. At this phase, information for parameterization and integration is readily available, and a synthesizable model can be obtained from the gener…
A fully-digital realtime SoC FPGA based phase noise analyzer with cross-correlation
2017
We report on a fully-digital and realtime operation of a phase noise analyzer using modern digital techniques with cross-correlation. With the advent of system on chip field-programmable gate arrays (SoC FPGAs) embedding hard core central processing unit, coprocessor and FPGA onto a single integrated circuit, the building of sensitive analysis devices for Time & Frequency research is made accessible at virtually no cost and benefits from reconfigurability. Used with high-speed digitizers we have successfully implemented a four-channel system whose preliminary results at 10 MHz shows a residual white noise floor < −185 dBrad2/Hz up to 5 MHz off the carrier, and flicker < −127 dBrad2/Hz using…
Run-time scalable NoC for FPGA based virtualized IPs
2017
The integration of virtualized FPGA-based hardware accelerators in a cloud computing is progressing from time to time. As the FPGA has limited resources, the dynamic partial reconfiguration capability of the FPGA is considered to share resources among different virtualized IPs during runtime. On the other hand, the NoC is a promising solution for communication among virtualized FPGA-based IPs. However, not all the virtualized regions of the FPGA will be active all the time. When there is no demand for virtualized IPs, the virtualized regions are loaded with blank bitstreams to save power. However, keeping active the idle components of the NoC connecting with the idle virtualized regions is …
Towards LST split-window algorithm FPGA implementation for CubeSats on-board computations purposes
2019
ABSTRACTNano, pico, and the so-called CubeSat satellites are taking place due to the emergent improvements in both high-performance nano and pico electronics and computational technologies. More th...
Wireless NoC for Inter-FPGA Communication: Theoretical Case for Future Datacenters
2020
Integration of FPGAs in datacenters might have different motivations from acceleration to energy efficiency, but the goal of better performance tops all. FPGAs are being utilized in a variety of ways today, tightly coupled with heterogenous computing resources, and as a standalone network of homogenous resources. Open source software stacks, propriety tool chain, and programming languages with advanced methodologies are hitting hard on the programmability wall of the FPGAs. The deployment of FPGAs in datacenters will neither be sustainable nor economical, without realizing the multi-tenancy in multiple FPGAs. Inter-FPGA communication among multiple FPGAs remained relatively less addressed p…
Combining GPU and FPGA technology for efficient exhaustive interaction analysis in GWAS
2016
Interaction between genes has become a major topic in quantitative genetics. It is believed that these interactions play a significant role in genetic variations causing complex diseases. Due to the number of tests required for an exhaustive search in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), a large amount of computational power is required. In this paper, we present a hybrid architecture consisting of tightly interconnected CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs and a fine-tuned software suite to outperform other implementations in pairwise interaction analysis while consuming less than 300Watts and fitting into a standard desktop computer case.
Learning automata based energy-efficient AI hardware design for IoT applications
2020
Energy efficiency continues to be the core design challenge for artificial intelligence (AI) hardware designers. In this paper, we propose a new AI hardware architecture targeting Internet of Things applications. The architecture is founded on the principle of learning automata, defined using propositional logic. The logic-based underpinning enables low-energy footprints as well as high learning accuracy during training and inference, which are crucial requirements for efficient AI with long operating life. We present the first insights into this new architecture in the form of a custom-designed integrated circuit for pervasive applications. Fundamental to this circuit is systematic encodin…
Sistema de transferencia de datos en el instrumento TilePPr del proyecto TileCal
2017
El proyecto surge de la implementación del nuevo sistema de lectura de datos FELIX, que aprovecha los Transceptores Gigabit incorporados en las FPGA XC7VX485T y XC7VX690T del fabricante Xilinx. Estos transceptores se usan para establecer enlaces de datos a través de fibra óptica entre la FPGA del Pre-procesador del TileCal o TilePPr (XC7VX485T) y la placa electrónica que está conectada por PCIe al servidor local (XC7VX690T), por lo que el trabajo consiste en alcanzar los siguientes objetivos: a) Poner en marcha en la FPGA XC7VX485T del Pre-procesador o TilePPr la interfaz de transferencia de datos para que sea compatible con el nuevo sistema “Enlace de intercambio en el límite frontal” o FE…
An FPGA aligner for short read mapping
2012
The rapid growth of short read datasets poses a new challenge to the mapping of short reads to a reference genome in terms of sensitivity and execution speed. In this work, we present a parallel architecture for short read mapping utilizing field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based hardware. The computation intensive semi-global alignment and the hash table lookup operations are mapped onto an FPGA. The proposed Align Core is implemented with a parallel block structure to gain computational efficiency. We present a new parallel block-wise alignment structure to approximate the conventional dynamic programming algorithm. The performance of our FPGA aligner is compared to the GASSST and BWA …