Wireless control of LED display using Bluetooth and Android

This thesis elaborates on the implementation of the FPGA board in order to drive the LED system. The goal of this project is to make every part of the design regarding the control of the electronics as customizable as possible. This project consists of 3 main parts to drive the LED system. The first part is called the “Collector”. The collector...

Rapid Control Prototyping in a three phase grid-tie BSNPC inverter - Sensors, PWM and control concepts

In these ages of a more and more increasing energy demand and struggle to reduce CO2 emissions, the need of robust, analytical and fast ways to introduce new alternative energy concepts into practice is imminent. Nowadays, engineers struggle to incorporate all parts of modern power electronic applications, such as new topologies, control...

Towards high-level synthesis of neural models on FPGAs

Recent trends in studying the brain activity have attracted interest in the simulation of neurons to understand the brain functionality. However, these simulations are computationally intensive and time consuming, which limits this study. High-performance FPGA-based platforms are being utilized to accelerate these simulations. However, the...

Hardware implementation of digital signal processing algorithms for long distance pipeline inspections

Inspections on transmission pipelines in the petrochemical industry are regularly conducted in order to guarantee safety of operations. Inspection devices are sent through the lines to record sensor data, this data needs to be post-processed in order to be able to make an analysis on the state of the pipeline. In this thesis, existing software...

Design of a Portable and Customizable Microprocessor for Rapid System Prototyping

Due to the increasing number of processors which are integrated in System On Chips (SOCs) the need for robust, highly configurable processors emerged. Preliminary research showed that commercial processors are not suited for many research projects due to the fact that they are closed source and they can not be modified. Open source processors on...

VHDL to SystemC: The Design of a Translator

VHDL and SystemC are both languages to describe or model circuits and systems. Reasons could exist for wanting to translate a model in VHDL to an equivalent model in SystemC. A system in SystemC can be needed for modeling a system with a software part, for a faster simulation, or because some tools only support SystemC. This thesis presents a...