Embedding linux On FPGA: An application on a real-time neutron/gamma Discrimination system for fusion devices

Author

Riva, M. ; Esposito, B. ; Marocco, D. ; Belli, F.

Author_Institution

Assoc. EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione, Frascati, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A new architecture has been developed for the ENEA-Frascati neutron/gamma Digital Pulse Shape Discrimination (DPSD) system. The system (FPGA-based, 200 MSamples/s, 14 bit ADC resolution) has been upgraded to 4 input channels; higher versatility has been obtained through the implementation of a soft processor in the FPGA. The FPGA-embedded processor enables to create software programs written in plain C to control the hardware: simple set-up and modification of hardware parameters and real time data distribution over the standard Ethernet network are now available.

Keywords

Linux; field programmable gate arrays; fusion reactor materials; high energy physics instrumentation computing; local area networks; FPGA-embedded processor; Frascati neutron/gamma digital pulse shape discrimination system; fusion devices; hardware parameters; real time data distribution; software programs; standard Ethernet network; Data processing; Ethernet networks; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Linux; Neutrons; Pulse shaping methods; Real time systems; Shape; Software standards; FPGA; component; embedded systems; linux; neutron-gamma discrimination; real-time;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering, 2009. SOFE 2009. 23rd IEEE/NPSS Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2635-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2636-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.2009.5226463

Filename

5226463