Title :
Reconfigurable Color Doppler DSP Engine for High-Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging Systems
Author :
Yu, Tzu-Hao ; Sun, Shih-Yu ; Ding, Chih-Liang ; Li, Pai-Chi ; Wu, An-Yeu
Author_Institution :
Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Abstract :
A single-chip reconfigurable Color Doppler DSP engine is presented. It acts as the computation kernel of the high-frequency ultrasonic imaging system under development. The flexibility of the proposed DSP engine enables users to acquire sufficient information as needed, while the specificity of the hardware compared to general-purpose processors reduces cost and power consumption. This chip is implemented by TSMC 0.18 ¿m 1P6M CMOS technology. The die size is 2.94*2.94 mm2, and the power consumption is 184 mW when frame rate = 50, frame size = 512*256, and packet size = 8.
Keywords :
Blood flow; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processing chips; Energy consumption; Engines; Finite impulse response filter; Frequency; Hardware; Spatial resolution; Ultrasonic imaging; Color Doppler; DSP; Ultrasound;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing Systems, 2007 IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1222-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1520-6130
DOI :
10.1109/SIPS.2007.4387542
