Stand-alone monitoring of time varying digital data using reconfigurable System-On-Chip technology

Abstract

Reconfigurable System-On-Chip is a new technology compared to traditional System-On-Chip. Their use in designing an embedded system allows for low circuit size, portability, low cost, small power consumption, low path latency, high data rate processing, while protecting design from obsolescence, and allowing past deployment customization. Traditional data monitoring systems are computer-based. In many fields like industrial or medical fields, it is difficult to bring a computer into these fields due to various restrictions like power consumption, size and cost. By using high density Filed Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) technologies, stand-alone data monitoring systems can be designed. In this research, time varying data is monitored and plotted on a graphical display module using a novel stand-alone system design. That system is capable of monitoring continuous time varying data by plotting it graphically without the use of a personal computer. Successful achievements are presented in the paper for experimental data.