This white paper discusses how market trends, the need for increased productivity, and new legislation have
accelerated the use of safety systems in industrial machinery. This TÜV-qualified FPGA design methodology is
changing the paradigms of safety designs and will greatly reduce development effort, system complexity, and time to
market. This allows FPGA users to design their own customized safety controllers and provides a significant
competitive advantage over traditional microcontroller or ASIC-based designs.
Introduction
The basic motivation of deploying functional safety systems is to ensure safe operation as well as safe behavior in
cases of failure. Examples of functional safety systems include train brakes, proximity sensors for hazardous areas
around machines such as fast-moving robots, and distributed control systems in process automation equipment such
as those used in petrochemical plants.
The International Electrotechnical Commission’s standard, IEC 61508: “Functional safety of
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems,” is understood as the standard for designing
safety systems for electrical, electronic, and programmable electronic (E/E/PE) equipment. This standard was
developed in the mid-1980s and has been revised several times to cover the technical advances in various industries.
In addition, derivative standards have been developed for specific markets and applications that prescribe the
particular requirements on functional safety systems in these industry applications. Example applications include
process automation (IEC 61511), machine automation (IEC 62061), transportation (railway EN 50128), medical (IEC
62304), automotive (ISO 26262), power generation, distribution, and transportation.
圖Figure 1. Local Safety System
Abstract: There are many things to consider when designing a power supply for a field-programmablegate array (FPGA). These include (but are not limited to) the high number of voltage rails, and thediffering requirements for both sequencing/tracking and the voltage ripple limits. This application noteexplains these and other power-supply considerations that an engineer must think through whendesigning a power supply for an FPGA.
This application note shows how to achieve low-cost, efficient serial configuration for Spartan FPGA designs. The approachrecommended here takes advantage of unused resources in a design, thereby reducing the cost, part count, memory size,and board space associated with the serial configuration circuitry. As a result, neither processor nor PROM needs to be fullydedicated to performing Spartan configuration.In particular, information is provided on how the idle processing time of an on-board controller can be used to loadconfiguration data from an off-board source. As a result, it is possible to upgrade a Spartan design in the field by sending thebitstream over a network.
Xilinx FPGAs require at least two power supplies: VCCINTfor core circuitry and VCCO for I/O interface. For the latestXilinx FPGAs, including Virtex-II Pro, Virtex-II and Spartan-3, a third auxiliary supply, VCCAUX may be needed. Inmost cases, VCCAUX can share a power supply with VCCO.The core voltages, VCCINT, for most Xilinx FPGAs, rangefrom 1.2V to 2.5V. Some mature products have 3V, 3.3Vor 5V core voltages. Table 1 shows the core voltagerequirement for most of the FPGA device families. TypicalI/O voltages (VCCO) vary from 1.2V to 3.3V. The auxiliaryvoltage VCCAUX is 2.5V for Virtex-II Pro and Spartan-3, andis 3.3V for Virtex-II.
Xilinx Next Generation 28 nm FPGA Technology Overview
Xilinx has chosen 28 nm high-κ metal gate (HKMG) highperformance,low-power process technology and combined it with a new unified ASMBL™ architecture to create a new generation of FPGAs that offer lower power and higher performance. These devices enable unprecedented levels of integration and bandwidth and provide system architects and designers a fully programmable alternative to ASSPs and ASICs.
XAPP520將符合2.5V和3.3V I/O標準的7系列FPGA高性能I/O Bank進行連接
The I/Os in Xilinx® 7 series FPGAs are classified as either high range (HR) or high performance (HP) banks. HR I/O banks can be operated from 1.2V to 3.3V, whereas HP I/O banks are optimized for operation between 1.2V and 1.8V. In circumstances that require an HP 1.8V I/O bank to interface with 2.5V or 3.3V logic, a range of options can be deployed. This application note describes methodologies for interfacing 7 series HP I/O banks with 2.5V and 3.3V systems
針對嵌入式機器視覺系統(tǒng)向獨立化、智能化發(fā)展的要求，介紹了一種嵌入式視覺系統(tǒng)--智能相機?；趯χ悄芟鄼C體系結(jié)構(gòu)、組成模塊和圖像采集、傳輸和處理技術(shù)的分析，對國內(nèi)外的幾款智能相機進行比較。綜合技術(shù)發(fā)展現(xiàn)狀，提出基于FPGA+DSP模式的硬件平臺，并提出智能相機的發(fā)展方向。分析結(jié)果表明，該系統(tǒng)設(shè)計可以實現(xiàn)脫離PC運行，完成圖像獲取與分析，并作出相應(yīng)輸出。
Abstract:
This paper introduced an embedded vision system-intelligent camera ，which was for embedded machine vision systems to an independent and intelligent development requirements. Intelligent camera architecture， component modules and image acquisition， transmission and processing technology were analyzed. After comparing integrated technology development of several intelligent cameras at home and abroad， the paper proposed the hardware platform based on FPGA+DSP models and made clear direction of development of intelligent cameras. On the analysis of the design， the results indicate that the system can run from the PC independently to complete the image acquisition and analysis and give a corresponding output.
針對傳統(tǒng)集成電路（ASIC）功能固定、升級困難等缺點，利用FPGA實現(xiàn)了擴頻通信芯片STEL-2000A的核心功能。使用ISE提供的DDS IP核實現(xiàn)NCO模塊，在下變頻模塊調(diào)用了硬核乘法器并引入CIC濾波器進行低通濾波，給出了DQPSK解調(diào)的原理和實現(xiàn)方法，推導(dǎo)出一種簡便的引入?仔/4固定相移的實現(xiàn)方法。采用模塊化的設(shè)計方法使用VHDL語言編寫出源程序，在Virtex-II Pro 開發(fā)板上成功實現(xiàn)了整個系統(tǒng)。測試結(jié)果表明該系統(tǒng)正確實現(xiàn)了STEL-2000A的核心功能。
Abstract:
To overcome drawbacks of ASIC such as fixed functionality and upgrade difficulty, FPGA was used to realize the core functions of STEL-2000A. This paper used the DDS IP core provided by ISE to realize the NCO module, called hard core multiplier and implemented CIC filter in the down converter, described the principle and implementation detail of the demodulation of DQPSK, and derived a simple method to introduce a fixed phase shift of ?仔/4. The VHDL source code was designed by modularity method , and the complete system was successfully implemented on Virtex-II Pro development board. Test results indicate that this system successfully realize the core function of the STEL-2000A.
波長信號的解調(diào)是實現(xiàn)光纖光柵傳感網(wǎng)絡(luò)的關(guān)鍵，基于現(xiàn)有的光纖光柵傳感器解調(diào)方法，提出一種基于FPGA的雙匹配光纖光柵解調(diào)方法，此系統(tǒng)是一種高速率、高精度、低成本的解調(diào)系統(tǒng)，并且通過引入雙匹配光柵有效地克服了雙值問題同時擴大了檢測范圍。分析了光纖光柵的測溫原理并給出了該方案軟硬件設(shè)計，綜合考慮系統(tǒng)的解調(diào)精度和FPGA的處理速度給出了基于拉格朗日的曲線擬合算法。
Abstract:
Sensor is one of the most important application of the fiber grating. Wavelength signal demodulating is the key techniques to carry out fiber grating sensing network， based on several existing methods of fiber grating sensor demodulation inadequate， a two-match fiber grating demodulation method was presented. This system is a high-speed， high precision， low-cost demodulation system. And by introducing a two-match grating effectively overcomes the problem of double value while expands the scope of testing. This paper analyzes the principle of fiber Bragg grating temperature and gives the software and hardware design of the program. Considering the system of demodulation accuracy and processing speed of FPGA，this paper gives the curve fitting algorithm based on Lagrange.
