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Authors:
Esteve Hassan
Bilal Al Momani
Keywords: FPGA; Telemetry system; FPGA design improvement; power assessment.
Abstract:
The study in this paper is focused on the improvement of a Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) based design using a hierarchical analysis tool offered by XILINX PlanAheadTM. During this work, PlanAhead software is used to address any problems on the physical side of our FPGA design flow to add more modules visibility and control. The design application is a telemetry system intended for health monitoring applications. FPGA is used as the brain control unit at both transmitter and receiver sides. The transmitter side is recording data packets through external interfaced sensors. Verilog Hardware Description Language (Verilog-HDL) has been used to implement the various functionalities required by the FPGA device. The system performance as shown in the results has been optimized using a recent comprehensive tool to reach and maintain the goals of the design. The power performance of the FPGA-based design will be assessed using the XILINX Xpower tool. A Modelsim Code coverage feature has been incorporated to make sure that the test bench will cover all the nets branch statements of the design and create the most accurate Value Change Dump (VCD) file for the power consumption assessment process.
Pages: 41 to 50
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2021. Used with permission.
Publication date: December 31, 2021
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2601