Microsystems and system-on-chip integration applied to inertial measuring system development

Author

Fitó, Xavier ; Lleixa, Francesc ; Yi, Guo ; Ferrer, Carles

Author_Institution

CSIC, Inst. de Microelectron. de Barcelona

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0

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0-0 0

Firstpage

488

Lastpage

493

Abstract

The objective of this work is to develop a complete inertial measurement unit using sensors and components easy to find in actual market, such as FPGAs, and implement it as a system-on-a-chip. The sensors that are used are gyroscopes and accelerometers, and the FPGA is a system core where the system-on-a-chip is implemented including VHDL drivers to control sensors set, store information in a memory and analyze all captured data. The SoC includes a complete communication system based on an Avalon bus to connect drivers with memory, to a Nios processor and other peripherals communication channels

Keywords

accelerometers; field programmable gate arrays; gyroscopes; hardware description languages; inertial systems; system buses; system-on-chip; Avalon bus; FPGA; Nios processor; VHDL drivers; accelerometers; communication system; gyroscopes; inertial measurement unit; microsystems; peripherals communication channels; system-on-a-chip implementation; Accelerometers; Communication system control; Control systems; Data analysis; Field programmable gate arrays; Gyroscopes; Information analysis; Measurement units; Sensor systems; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Motion Control, 2006. 9th IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9511-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AMC.2006.1631708

Filename

1631708