Enabling touch-sensing capability would help appliances understand interaction behaviors with their surroundings. Many recent studies are focusing on the development of electronic skin because of its necessity in various application domains, namely a...
The flexibility provided by FPGAs permits the implementation of several ADCs, each one configured with the required bit resolution and sampling frequency. The paper presents the design and implementation of scalable and parametrizable analog-to-digit...
The paper presents an application of the ASMD-FSMD technique for designing high-performance digital circuits on the example of an implementation of sequential multipliers in reconfigurable FPGA devices. The method primarily enables multiple operation...
Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) with superior performance are in high demand in application domains like light detection and ranging (LIDAR), nuclear physics, and time interval counters. One of the interesting architectures for field-programmable g...
In this work, we implemented a short-reach real-time optical communication system using MLP for pre-distortion. Lookup table (LUT) algorithms are commonly employed for pre-distortion in intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) systems. Howev...
Signal conditioning circuits, in particle energy spectrum determination systems, introduce shaping characteristics that affect pulse integrity. This study explores algorithms to compensate for these effects, focusing on digital signal processing for...
To solve real-time challenges, neuromorphic systems generally require deep and complex network structures. Thus, it is crucial to search for effective solutions that can reduce network complexity, improve energy efficiency, and maintain high accuracy...
With the development of artificial intelligence, LiDAR finds significant applications in robotics and autonomous driving. Aiming at increasing the compactness and the integration of 2-D LiDAR, this paper presents a highly digitally integrated 2-D LiD...
To address practical challenges in establishing and maintaining robust wireless connectivity such as multi-path effects, low latency, size reduction, and high data rate, we have deployed the digital beamformer, as a spatial filter, by using the hybri...
This paper presents the hardware implementation of a stand-alone Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) system employing a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The image reconstruction algorithms of the ECT system demand intensive computation and f...
In this paper, a digital-to-time converter (DTC) based on the three delay lines (3D) Vernier principle is proposed and implemented with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Based on the 3D Vernier principle, the DTC is realized by three period app...
This paper examines the implementation and resource utilization of Cascaded Integrator Comb (CIC) filters within FPGA-based Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) microphone applications. Three CIC filter designs were analyzed: one generated using MATLAB&rsq...
Many machine learning and deep learning algorithms based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been implemented on software platforms for handwritten digit and character recognition. However, an ANN is difficult to deploy on an embedded platform...
This paper presents the design and implementation of a new digital-to-time converter (DTC). The obtained resolution is 1.02 ps, and the dynamic range is about 590 ns. The experimental results indicate that the measured differential nonlinearity (DNL)...
This paper presented a non-uniform multiphase (NUMP) time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with real-time automatic temperature compensation. NUMP-TDC is a novel, low-cost, high-performance TDC that has...
This paper reports on the hardware implementation of a digital insulin-glucose regulator for type 2 diabetic patients by using a Field Programmable Gate Array board. For a real time-control of the patient insulin concentration, the insulin-regulator...
This study investigated implementation strategies to optimize the precision of Tapped Delay Line (TDL) Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) designed for Xilinx 20 nm UltraScale Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). This optimization process aims to br...
Time-to-digital converter (TDC) is the key technology to realize accurate time delay measurement in high-precision optical fiber time-frequency transmission and synchronization, optical sensing and many scientific applications. The performance of FPG...
In digital systems, finite state machines (FSMs) play a crucial role as controllers, control units, and independent sequential circuits. To efficiently implement these FSMs on advanced hardware platforms such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)...
This paper presents a comparative evaluation of a wave union (WU) time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented on two Microchip flash-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs): the radiation-tolerant RTG4 (RT4G150-1CG) and the low-power SmartFusion...
Design and implementation of biological neural networks is a vital research field in the neuromorphic engineering. This paper presents LUT-based modeling of the Adaptive Exponential integrate-and-fire (ADEX) model using Nyquist frequency method. In t...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used in modern applications for their versatility and high classification accuracy. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are considered to be suitable platforms for CNNs based on their high performanc...
Approximate or inaccurate addition is found to be viable for practical applications which have an inherent error tolerance. Approximate addition is realized using an approximate adder, and many approximate adder designs have been put forward in the l...
Inaccurate computing is found to be a high-speed, low-power and energy-efficient alternative to accurate computing for error-tolerant applications. In this context, this paper analyzes the usefulness of inaccurate computing for a digital image proces...
Particle physics experiments rely on complex trigger and data acquisition systems, where large channel counts, low latency, compact implementation, and power efficiency are critical requirements. In this context, mixed-signal interfaces are often nee...
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a unique imaging radar system that is capable of obtaining high-resolution images by using signal-processing techniques while operating in all weather and in the absence of a light source. The potential of SAR in a w...
This work focuses on evaluating the behavior of analog chaos oscillators in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). This work is motivated by a new approach to designing chaos-based communication systems using chaos oscillator circuits implemented in...
Finite set-model predictive control (FS-MPC) is used for power converters and drives having unique advantages as compared to the conventional control strategies. However, the computational burden of the FS-MPC is a primary concern for real-time imple...
Direct sensor–digital device interfaces measure time dependent variables of simple circuits to implement analog-to-digital conversion. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices whose hardware can be reconfigured to work in parallel. They usu...
As the need for the validation of mixed-signal systems such as Voice Coil Motor (VCM) drivers increases, verifying analog–digital interactions early in the design flow has become essential. Pure analog simulations are often too slow for system-...
This article presents an efficient crypto processor architecture for point multiplication acceleration of side-channel secured Binary Huff Curves (BHC) on FPGA (field-programmable gate array) over
This paper presents a new recursive trigonometric (RT) technique for Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design implementation. The traditional implementation of trigonometric functions on FPGAs requires a significant amount of data storage space to...
A slope analog-to-digital converter (ADC) amenable to be fully implemented on a digital field programmable gate array (FPGA) without requiring any external active or passive components is proposed in this paper. The amplitude information, encoded in...
The implementation of neural network regression prediction based on digital circuits is one of the challenging problems in the field of machine learning and cognitive recognition, and it is also an effective way to relieve the pressure of the Interne...
Recent advances in power converter applications with highly demanding control goals require the efficient implementation of superior control strategies. However, the real-time application of such control strategies demands high computational power th...
This paper describes the design, implementation, and testing of a novel multi-function software defined Radio Frequency (RF) system designed for small airborne drone applications. The system was created using an inexpensive Field Programmable Gate Ar...
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based system for digital filtering in a neonatal heart rate monitoring system is presented. The system employs electric potential sensors (EPS) and contains a single hardware filter stage for antialiasing. The r...
In this work, the design of the hardware architecture to implement an algorithm for optimizing the Hydrogen Productivity Rate (HPR) in a Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC) is presented. The HPR in the MEC is maximized by the golden section search algo...
Project-based learning (PBL) is proposed for the development of a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) platform and the design of its digital controller for an undergraduate course on Digital Electronic Systems. The objective for students is the design of a di...
A tapped delay line (TDL)-based time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented on an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) is sensitive to nonlinearities because of significant variations in the delay of the delay elements. Most of the nonlinearity of FP...
Portable sensor systems are usually based on microcontrollers and/or Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) that are interfaced with sensors by means of an Analog-to-Digital converter (ADC), either integrated in the computing device or external. An a...
The extensive utilization of the Snappy compression algorithm in digital devices such as smartphones, IoT, and digital cameras has played a crucial role in alleviating demands on network bandwidth and storage space. This paper presents an improved Sn...
This work compares the performance of two embedded FPGA controllers that can be used in Active Parallel Power Filters (APPF). Both controllers are validated through the FPGA-in-the-loop (FIL) technique, the algorithm’s synthesis is accomplished...
This study presents an innovative approach utilizing the new Shimizu–Morioka chaotic system. By integrating adaptive backstepping control with GYC partial region stability theory, we successfully achieve synchronization of a slave system with t...
This study presents a comprehensive performance evaluation of field-programmable gate array (FPGA), graphics processing unit (GPU), and central processing unit (CPU) platforms for implementing finite impulse response (FIR) filters in semiconductor-ba...
This work introduces and examines a new programmable electronic system, Board ADF339, designed for filtering analog measurement signals of low frequencies. The system operates in a mixed mode in collaboration with a digital controller implemented on...
The EEG is one of the main medical instruments used by clinicians in the analysis and diagnosis of epilepsy through visual observations or computers. Visual inspection is difficult, time-consuming, and cannot be conducted in real time. Therefore, we...
Phase jitter is one of the crucial factors in modern digital electronics, determining the reliability of a design. This paper presents a novel approach to designing a jitter comparison system and methodology for FPGA chips using a Tapped Delay Line (...
Motivated by the effects of deregulation over power quality and the subsequent need of new types of measurements, this paper assesses different implementations of an estimate for the spectral kurtosis, considered as a low-level harmonic detection. Pe...
The need for unpredictable sequences of bits is common in many important security applications. These sequences can only be generated by true random number generators (TRNGs). Apart from the natural analog domain for TRNGs, this type of generator is...
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