Application-specific integrated circuits based on reconfigurable logic.
Armando Jiménez Flores, Maximino Peña Guerrero, José de Jesús Negrete Redondo · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2010
A problem for developers of measuring and control instruments for medical equipment consists of building systems with higher degrees of sophistication, automation, and programmability, at the same time that it must limit the necessary space for the increasing number of components involved in his designs. In this context, it is attractive to develop application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for technologies of Field Programmable Logic Array (FPGA) devices because they allow circuit architecture and they are reconfigurable. This paper presents an analysis of the advantages of the FPGA technology in the development of specific applications to capture and to process signal with high performance. The tools used are Integrated Software Environment, ISE 10.1, based on language Very High Speed Integrated Circuits Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and a development system, Virtex-5 ML501, both of Xilinx. The results presented describe some basic logic functions that contain ASICs on FPGAs, oriented to the capture and signal processing.