Using Field Programmable Gate Array Hardware for the Performance Improvement of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation Imaging System

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Recently, wave propagation imaging based on laser scanning-generated elastic waves has been intensively used for nondestructive inspection. However, the proficiency of the conventional software based system reduces when the scan area is large since the processing time increases significantly due to unavoidable processor multitasking, where computing resources are shared with multiple processes. Hence, the field programmable gate array (FPGA) was introduced for a wave propagation imaging method in order to obtain extreme processing time reduction. An FPGA board was used for the design, implementing post-processing ultrasonic wave propagation imaging (UWPI). The results were compared with the conventional system and considerable improvement was observed, with at least 78% (scanning of 100 × 100 ㎟ with 0.5 ㎜ interval) to 87.5% (scanning of 200 × 200 ㎟ with 0.5 ㎜ interval) less processing time, strengthening the claim for the research. This new concept to implement FPGA technology into the UPI system will act as a break-through technology for full-scale automatic inspection.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Ultrasonic Wave Propagation Imaging Algorithm
• 3. FPGA Implementation of UWPI Algorithm
• 4. Results
• 5. Conclusion
• References

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