A new energy aware embedded architecture for real-time Electrical Capacitance Tomography

Author

Firadus, Ahmad ; Meribout, Mahmoud

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Pet. Inst., Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2013

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

93

Lastpage

96

Abstract

This paper presents a new embedded hardware architecture for real-time Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT). It consists of different two modules which consist of a capacitance data acquisition and switching board and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) board which performs the image reconstruction task. Experimental results indicate that that a throughput of 17 Kframes/sec for the Linear-Back Projection (LBP) algorithm with 200 iterations could be achieved. This satisfies the real-time constraint of many industrial applications.

Keywords

computerised tomography; data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; image reconstruction; real-time systems; ECT; FPGA board; LBP algorithm; capacitance data acquisition; embedded hardware architecture; energy aware embedded architecture; field programmable gate array board; image reconstruction; linear-back projection algorithm; real-time constraint; real-time electrical capacitance tomography; switching board; Capacitance; Computer architecture; Electrodes; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Real-time systems; Tomography; Electrical capacitance tomography; FPGA; Landweber; Linear Back Projection; energy aware architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Aware Computing Systems and Applications (ICEAC), 2013 4th Annual International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAC.2013.6737644

Filename

6737644