Title
Design and implementation of a high speed interface system over Gigabit Ethernet based on FPGA for use on radar acquisition systems
Date Issued
28 June 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The Jicamarca Radio Observatory (JRO) is part of the Western Hemisphere chain of Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) observatories which extends from Lima, Peru to S0ndre Str0mfjord, Greenland. The equatorial ionosphere is studied only by JRO in the world. The Observatory is a facility of the Instituto Geofísico del PerU operated with support from the US National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreements through Cornell University. One of the main radar components is JARS (Jicamarca Acquisition Radar System), which functionality is based on CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Device) to configure the system and transfer the data from the digital receivers to the acquisition computer over a proprietary interface NI PCIe-6537. However due to some limitations as its high cost, driver updates dependency and the data transfer speed, it was necessary to replace this interface with the design and implementation of a high-speed hardware, embedded on FPGA devices, to transmit the data through the LVDS interface to a double buffering stage, and forward these as packets on the standard Gigabit Ethernet, based on the IEEE 802.3 protocol and using the UDP protocol. In this way, this development will allow to update the hardware of the current JARS to get a low cost portable system and to work with the required bandwidth. A prototype of this system was developed on the JRO and also a customized software was written, based on UDP socket and multiple threads of execution.
Start page
1
End page
4
Volume
2018-January
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería ambiental y geológica
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85049618568
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of the 2017 Electronic Congress, E-CON UNI 2017
ISBN of the container
9781538622780
Conference
2017 Electronic Congress, E-CON UNI 2017 Lima 22 November 2017 through 24 November 2017
Sponsor(s)
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank the personal of the Ji-camarca Radio Observatory for their support through the development of this project. The Jicamarca Radio Observatory is a facility of the Instituto Geofísico del Perú operated with support from the National Science Foundation through Cornell University.
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