Programmable analog front-end system for ultrasonic SoC hardware

This study presents a scheme for enhancing the capabilities of an ultrasonic hardware platform leading to a fully reconfigurable system allowing for dynamic control over the analog front-end. This system presents a robust approach for nondestructive testing, data analysis and imaging applications. The fully programmable analog front-end system proposed in this paper supports up to 8 ultrasonic sensors. The components of this system are dynamically configurable by a Zynq system-on-chip (SoC) module for real-time ultrasonic data acquisition and analysis. This reconfigurable system enables ultrasonic researchers to efficiently prototype different experiments and to incorporate high performance ultrasonic signal and image processing algorithms.