Platform independent GUI for reconfigurable ultrasonic system-an-chip hardware

Ultrasonic systems are widely used in industrial and medical imaging applications for diagnosis, nondestructive evaluation (NDE), defect recognition and classification. These applications are big data problems that must be processed in real-time using computationally intensive signal processing algorithms. The Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware (RUSH) platform, developed for this study, utilizes hardware/software co-design to allow flexibility in system development for these real-time ultrasonic signal processing applications. In this paper, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is designed for the RUSH platform which allows users to visualize and capture ultrasonic signals in one, two and three dimensions. Furthermore, a TCP based platform-independent client-server protocol has been established for communication between the RUSH system and the user.