A Hardware Based Braille Note Taker

Author

Zhang, Xuan ; Ortega-Sanchez, Cesar ; Murray, Iain

Author_Institution

Curtin Univ. of Technol., Bentley

fYear

2007

fDate

28-26 Feb. 2007

Firstpage

131

Lastpage

136

Abstract

This paper describes a Braille note taker implemented in hardware. The system is able to perform Braille to text translation as well as note taking. A method is presented on how to achieve Braille note taking using a Braille keyboard. To perform Braille to text translation, a translating system has been built based on previous work. Using very high speed integrated circuit hardware description language (VHDL) and a field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) development platform, a system that includes the keyboard controller and translator has been hierarchically described and implemented.

Keywords

VLSI; field programmable gate arrays; keyboards; language translation; text analysis; Braille keyboard; Hardware Description Language; field programmable gate arrays; hardware based Braille note taker; keyboard controller; keyboard translator; text translation; translating system; very high speed integrated circuit; Code standards; Computer displays; Control systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware design languages; Infrared sensors; Keyboards; Microcontrollers; Software performance; Very high speed integrated circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Programmable Logic, 2007. SPL '07. 2007 3rd Southern Conference on

Conference_Location

Mar del Plata

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0606-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPL.2007.371736

Filename

4234333