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<p>In order to achieve the high-processing performance required in typical computationally intensive high-sample rate monitoring applications, a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is often used as a hardware accelerator. Given the design complexity, increased power consumption and additional cost of an FPGA, it is desirable to determine the sampling rates for which the use of an FPGA as hardware accelerator results in most effective solution. For this purpose, a computationally intensive application is realized on an FPGA based architecture so as to determine the sampling rates for which it achieves the highest performance and consumes the least amount of energy as compared to that of a micro-controller based architecture. Based on the measured performance and energy consumption for a computationally intensive application, tri-axes/three-channel vibration based condition monitoring, the results suggest that the FPGA based architecture is the most appropriate solution for sampling frequencies of 4 kHz and above.</p>
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In order to achieve the high-processing performance required in typical computationally intensive high-sample rate monitoring applications, a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is often used as a hardware accelerator. Given the design complexity, increased power consumption and additional cost of an FPGA, it is desirable to determine the sampling rates for which the use of an FPGA as hardware accelerator results in most effective solution. For this purpose, a computationally intensive application is realized on an FPGA based architecture so as to determine the sampling rates for which it achieves the highest performance and consumes the least amount of energy as compared to that of a micro-controller based architecture. Based on the measured performance and energy consumption for a computationally intensive application, tri-axes/three-channel vibration based condition monitoring, the results suggest that the FPGA based architecture is the most appropriate solution for sampling frequencies of 4 kHz and above.

Quantitative Evaluation of an FPGA based Wireless Vibration Monitoring System in relation to Different Sampling Rates

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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In order to achieve the high-processing performance required in typical computationally intensive high-sample rate monitoring applications, a Field...

Quantitative Evaluation of an FPGA based Wireless Vibration Monitoring System in relation to Different Sampling Rates

Published Online: Feb 15, 2020

Page range: 1 - 7

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2019-034

Keywords
wireless monitoring, FPGA, sampling rate, high-sample rate, energy consumption, hardware accelerator

© 2019 Khurram Shahzad et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Quantitative Evaluation of an FPGA based Wireless Vibration Monitoring System in relation to Different Sampling Rates

Published Online: Feb 15, 2020

Page range: 1 - 7

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2019-034

Keywordswireless monitoring, FPGA, sampling rate, high-sample rate, energy consumption, hardware accelerator

© 2019 Khurram Shahzad et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
wireless monitoring, FPGA, sampling rate, high-sample rate, energy consumption, hardware accelerator