Multiprocessor system-on-chip design for industrial wireless application
Nico Surantha, Astri Maria, Yuhei Nagao, Hiroshi Ochi · 2016
In the recent years, wireless technology has arised as a promising alternative to ethernet technology as a transmission medium for industrial automation system. This paper presents our wireless solution for industrial application, which is based on wireless LAN (WLAN) system. In this paper, our proposed system on chip (SoC) design and FPGA implementation for industrial wireless local area network (iWLAN) systems is introduced. The SoC design includes the dual-processor ARM based reconfigurable CPU, high-performance AMBA bus, model-based WLAN PHY, and HW/SW co-design WLAN MAC layer, and high-speed peripheral IP. The FPGA implementation is performed on our advanced FPGA verification platform. We utilize the multiprocessor architecture to satisfy the real-time property of iWLAN system. Our simulation results and FPGA implementation show that our design and implementation can meet the requirement of the system.