Castillo, Juan David Espitia; Canto Navarro, Enrique; Vidal-Idiarte, Enric (2022). Design and Implementation of Scalable and Parametrizable Analog-to-Digital Converter on FPGA. Electronics, 11(3), 447-. DOI: 10.3390/electronics11030447
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Electronics. 11 (3): 447-
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The flexibility provided by FPGAs permits the implementation of several ADCs, each one configured with the required bit resolution and sampling frequency. The paper presents the design and implementation of scalable and parametrizable analog-to-digital converters (ADC), based on a successive approximation register (SAR), on FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays). Firstly, the work develops a systematic methodology for the implementation of a parametrizable SAR-based ADC from a set of building modules, such as the pulse-width modulator (PWM), external low-pass filter (LPF) and the analog comparator. The presented method allows choosing the LPF parameters for the required performance (resolution bits and sampling frequency) of a SAR-based ADC. Secondly, the paper also presents several optimizations on the PWM module to enhance the sampling frequency of implemented ADCs, and the method to choose the LPF parameters is adapted. The PWM and SAR logic are synthesizable and parametrizable, using a low number of resources, in order to be portable for low-cost FPGA families. The methodology and PWM optimizations are tested on a Zynq-7000 device from Xilinx; however, they can be adapted to any other FPGA.
The flexibility provided by FPGAs permits the implementation of several ADCs, each one configured with the required bit resolution and sampling frequency. The paper presents the design and implementation of scalable and parametrizable analog-to-digital converters (ADC), based on a successive approximation register (SAR), on FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays). Firstly, the work develops a systematic methodology for the implementation of a parametrizable SAR-based ADC from a set of building modules, such as the pulse-width modulator (PWM), external low-pass filter (LPF) and the analog comparator. The presented method allows choosing the LPF parameters for the required performance (resolution bits and sampling frequency) of a SAR-based ADC. Secondly, the paper also presents several optimizations on the PWM module to enhance the sampling frequency of implemented ADCs, and the method to choose the LPF parameters is adapted. The PWM and SAR logic are synthesizable and parametrizable, using a low number of resources, in order to be portable for low-cost FPGA families. The methodology and PWM optimizations are tested on a Zynq-7000 device from Xilinx; however, they can be adapted to any other FPGA.
Title:
Design and Implementation of Scalable and Parametrizable Analog-to-Digital Converter on FPGA
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Journal Publications
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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