Blackfin-FPGA multiprocessor system for ultrasonic-data reduction

Author

Balzer, M. ; Stripf, H.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Data Proceesing & Electron., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2004

fDate

21-24 March 2004

Firstpage

841

Lastpage

844

Abstract

For the detection of cracks and corrosion in pipelines an ultrasonic measuring system (pig) was developed. During the pipeline inspection there is no communication to the outside world, the accumulated data have to be stored on a mass storage device. The amount of data for a 250 kilometre run is in the range of about 700 TBytes at a rate of 2.8 GByte/s. This amount of data has to be filtered, reduced and compressed by a factor of 7000 to store it on a storage device. To overcome these difficulties a massive parallel multiprocessing system with FPGAs and Blackfin DSPs was developed. Each of the system modules has a computing power of more then 2400 MOPS. The complete computing power is installed in a volume the size of a half shoe box.

Keywords

corrosion; crack detection; data compression; field programmable gate arrays; multiprocessing systems; pipelines; ultrasonic measurement; 2.8 Gbit/s; 250 km; Blackfin-FPGA multiprocessor system; mass storage device; massive parallel multiprocessing system; pipeline inspection; ultrasonic measuring system; ultrasonic-data reduction; Corrosion; Data processing; Inspection; Multiprocessing systems; Petroleum; Pipelines; Pulse measurements; Signal processing; Testing; Ultrasonic variables measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Communications and Signal Processing, 2004. First International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8379-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCCSP.2004.1296577

Filename

1296577