Performance analysis of reconfigurable ultrasonic system-on-chip hardware platform

Author

Govindan, Priya ; Gilliland, Scott ; Kasaeifard, Alireza ; Gonnot, Thomas ; Saniie, Jafar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

6-9 May 2013

Firstpage

1550

Lastpage

1553

Abstract

High-speed implementations of computationally-intensive algorithms are essential for real-time ultrasonic signal processing application development. Hardware-software co-design allows flexible system development to carry out such experiments. In this paper, we developed a reconfigurable ultrasonic system-on-chip hardware (RUSH) platform which offers a Linux based development environment by integrating FPGA firmware with specially designed software for high performance ultrasonic signal processing applications. Furthermore, the performance and resource utilization of the RUSH platform is analyzed for various ultrasonic signal processing algorithm implementations.

Keywords

Linux; field programmable gate arrays; hardware-software codesign; signal processing equipment; system-on-chip; ultrasonic applications; FPGA firmware; Linux based development environment; RUSH; computationally intensive algorithms; hardware-software codesign; realtime ultrasonic signal processing application; reconfigurable ultrasonic system-on-chip hardware; ultrasonic signal processing applications; Acoustics; Chirp; Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Signal processing algorithms; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4621-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/I2MTC.2013.6555674

Filename

6555674