Performance analysis of reconfigurable ultrasonic system-on-chip hardware platform

High-speed implementations of computationally-intensive algorithms are essential for real-time ultrasonic signal processing application development. Hardware-software co-design allows flexible system development to carry out such experiments. In this paper, we developed a reconfigurable ultrasonic system-on-chip hardware (RUSH) platform which offers a Linux based development environment by integrating FPGA firmware with specially designed software for high performance ultrasonic signal processing applications. Furthermore, the performance and resource utilization of the RUSH platform is analyzed for various ultrasonic signal processing algorithm implementations.