Sensor Systems Based on FPGAs and Their Applications: A Survey

Piedra, Antonio de la; Braeken, An; Touhafi, Abdellah

doi:10.3390/s120912235

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“…Even our implementation with relatively older generation Xilinx Spartan3 XC3S1500-FG320-4 FPGA with its static power consumption of 41 mW provides comparable power consumption performance to that of commonly used processorbased implementations. For example, Mica2 mote with ATMega128 microcontroller operating at 7.4 MHz with CC1000 radio module consumes total active power of 89 mW, and similarly Telos-B mote with TiMSP430 microcontroller operating at 8 MHz with CC2420 radio module consumes total active power of 32 mW [14].…”

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FPGA based wireless sensor node with customizable event-driven architecture

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This article presents the design and implementation of modular customizable event-driven architecture with parallel execution capability for the first time with wireless sensor nodes using stand alone FPGA. This customizable event-driven architecture is based on modular generic event dispatchers and autonomous event handlers, which will help WSN application developers to quickly develop their applications by adding the required number of event dispatchers and event handlers as per the need of a WSN application. This architecture can handle multiple events in parallel, including high priority ones. Additionally, it provides non-preemptive operation which removes the timing uncertainty and overhead involved with interrupt-driven processor-based sensor node implementation, which is required in real-time wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Thus, higher computation power of FPGAs combined with the non-preemptive modular event-driven architecture with parallel execution capability enables a variety of new WSN applications and facilitates rapid prototyping of WSN applications. In this article, the performance of FPGA-based sensor device is compared with general purpose processor-based implementations of sensor devices. Results show that our FPGA-based implementation provides significant improvement in system efficiency measured in terms of clock cycle counts required for typical sensor network tasks such as packet transmission, relay and reception.

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“…An extensive survey on the suitability and challenges of using FPGA for various WSN applications are provided in [14]. It is pointed out in this survey that FPGAs are particularly useful for computationally demanding WSN applications.…”

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“…This sensor model was then used in "hardware in the loop" tests, where multiple instances of emulated sensors were used. Usage of FPGA technology is also discussed in Piedra's publication [13], which describes the parameters of different FPGA platforms and their capabilities to implement specific sensors depending on their parameters, such as RAM and power consumption. The issue of the smart sensor communications network is addressed by Moreno-Tapia et al in paper [1], where they suggest the communication of reconfigurable smart sensors in industrial networks-specifically in CNC machine monitoring applications.…”

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ARM-Based Universal 1-Wire Module Solution

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Tanuška

Gašpar³

et al. 2018

Journal of Sensors

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Sensory networks are part of a solution to monitor the required physical variables in the area of interest. Their type, the used communication protocol, plays an important role in the parameter of their complexity. One of the economical solutions is the usage of a 1-wire communication network that requires only 2 physical wires. The individual sensors or the nodes of the communication network are connected in parallel. The goal was to design and implement a universal low-power 1-wire bus module with a fully implemented 1-wire standard. As a platform for the development of such module, STM32-based microcontroller was chosen. The main advantage of this solution is the ability to utilize a sensor from a large variety of available sensors with a standardized communication interface. Our solution of the universal 1-wire module provides a single interface for sensors with different communication interfaces, while it still communicates with the standard 1-wire bus controller.

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“…Thus, control engineers have sought new manners to implement high-performance systems, often based on devices such as FPGAs [10], especially in niche areas such as motion control and voltage regulators and also in the creation of intelligent sensors and other intelligent electronic devices [11]. Moreover, the introduction of new technological features, such as the extended embedded platforms (with offers from all FPGAs vendors), containing high-end processors and reconfigurable logic, seems like the next logical step for the creation of plants-on-a-chip [12].…”

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Real-Time Control System for Improved Precision and Throughput in an Ultrafast Carbon Fiber Placement Robot Using a SoC FPGA Extended Processing Platform

Ochoa-Ruiz

Bevan

Lamotte

et al. 2017

International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing

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We present an architecture for accelerating the processing and execution of control commands in an ultrafast fiber placement robot. The system consists of a robotic arm designed by Coriolis Composites whose purpose is to move along a surface, on which composite fibers are deposed, via an independently controlled head. In first system implementation, the control commands were sent via Profibus by a PLC, limiting the reaction time and thus the precision of the fiber placement and the maximum throughput. Therefore, a custom real-time solution was imperative in order to ameliorate the performance and to meet the stringent requirements of the target industry (avionics, aeronautical systems). The solution presented in this paper is based on the use of a SoC FPGA processing platform running a real-time operating system (FreeRTOS), which has enabled an improved comamnd retrieval mechanism. The system's placement precision was improved by a factor of 20 (from 1 mm to 0.05 mm), while the maximum achievable throughput was 1 m/s, compared to the average 30 cm/s provided by the original solution, enabling fabricating more complex and larger pieces in a significant fraction of the time.

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Sensor Systems Based on FPGAs and Their Applications: A Survey

Cited by 104 publications

References 74 publications

FPGA based wireless sensor node with customizable event-driven architecture

FPGA based wireless sensor node with customizable event-driven architecture

ARM-Based Universal 1-Wire Module Solution

Real-Time Control System for Improved Precision and Throughput in an Ultrafast Carbon Fiber Placement Robot Using a SoC FPGA Extended Processing Platform

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