High-speed real-time multi-channel data-acquisition unit: Challenges and results

Author

Zhenqiang Su ; Huschle, Johannes ; Redfield, Stephen ; Tianzhu Qiao ; Huaping Liu ; Liu, Frank

Author_Institution

Sch. of EECS, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

112

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the design of a 3 Giga-samples per second real-time multi-channel data-acquisition unit. We first introduce the technical challenges including synchronization, data transmission and printed circuit board design. Then we analyze the cause of issues in multi-channel synchronization, and develop a novel method to synchronize the channels and correctly save the data into RAM. We later discuss issues surrounding the unit´s signal integrity and routing. We provide techniques and design procedures to properly mitigate these issues and guarantee the correct performance of the system. The DAU has been fabricated, and its performance is evaluated in this paper by sampling ultra-wide-band signals.

Keywords

data acquisition; data communication equipment; printed circuits; synchronisation; RAM; data transmission; high-speed data-acquisition unit; multi-channel synchronization; printed circuit board design; real-time multi-channel data-acquisition unit; signal integrity; signal routing; ultra-wide-band signals; Clocks; Delays; Field programmable gate arrays; Routing; Silicon; Synchronization; High-speed data-acquisition; multi-channel; real-time sampling; synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2014 IEEE 11th

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2356-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2014.6866556

Filename

6866556