15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
ULTRASONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING USING CONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS
Alvaro Hernández, Jesús Ureña, J. J. García, Vicente Díaz, Manuel Mazo, Daniel Hernanz
Jean-Pierre Dérutin*, Jocelyn Serot*
Electronics Department. Universidad de Alcalá.
Campus Universitario s/n, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (Spain).
* Laboratoire LASMEA UMR 6602 du CNRS. Université Blaise-Pascal.
63177 Aubière (France).

The application of multi-mode techniques, in order to determine the times of flight of the ultrasounds, gives solution to the main problems of this kind of sensorial system (little precision and low speed of acquisition), but also presents certain constraints to perform its processing in real time. In this way, the application of the principles of the logical reconfiguration implies more optimal and efficient systems in the use of resources assigned initially to each task of the process, obtaining significant improvements in the developed platforms compared with other possible processing architectures more frequently used.
Keywords: programmable logic circuits, parallel processing, signal processing, sensor, phase modulation
Session slot T-Fr-A17: High-performance computing for real-time signal processing and control/Area code 9d : Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control