Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware (RUSH) platform for real-time ultrasonic imaging applications

Ultrasonic systems are widely used in industrial and medical imaging applications for diagnosis, nondestructive evaluation (NDE), defect recognition and classification. These applications require large amounts of data to be processed in realtime using computationally-intensive signal processing algorithms. In this study, we developed a Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware (RUSH) platform. This platform provides real-time signal processing for NDE and imaging applications using ultrasonic transducers ranging from 20 KHz to 20 MHz operational frequencies.