Industry background.
Ultrasonic technology is currently evolving towards the goal of achieving higher resolution images, including real-time display of 3D and 4D images. This trend requires not only the ability to connect more transducer channels, but also higher frames per second and the corresponding hardware performance. This allows doctors and ultrasound operators to obtain clearer images of the body than ever before. At the same time, these systems must do this at a lower cost and with lower power consumption.
FPGA Technology The XCKU085-1FLVA1517i FPGA solution offers ultrasound system designers the possibility to build a next-generation ultrasound system that can produce deeper images to produce real-time 4D images at a lower cost and with less power. With a large number of embedded logic cells, memory, and a variety of IO and DSP transceivers, this FPGA chip enables it to operate in harsh medical and military environments.
Analog front-end (AFE) communication.
When it comes to analog front-end communication, FPGAs provide a solution to the challenges of communicating with analog front-end (AFE) through the use of innovative DSP transceivers and protocols such as JESD204B. These innovations enable more channels to be connected simultaneously, simplifying the traditional LVDS PCB layout and making it easier to align the channels and octal numbers with the transceiver's built-in channels.
Back-end processing. The processing of ultrasound images is no longer as simple as it used to be. Today's high-resolution 3D and 4D images require not only higher-performance devices to reconstruct ultrasound images in real time, but also the ability to build these reconstruction algorithms and techniques using software languages such as C or OpenCL. However, FPGA technology has significant advantages in this regard, as it can accelerate software-based ultrasound image reconstruction algorithms, enabling ultrasound systems to reach new scanning depths and higher image quality than ever before.
The XCKU085-1FLVA1517i FPGA chip provides a unified software platform, which helps algorithm developers to develop with C OpenCL. Eventual real-time processing is achieved by compiling against the COTS platform that supports the device, eliminating the need to convert to an RTL or design platform. The advantages of the FPGA software platform include real-time processing of 2D 3D 4D ultrasound images, software-based development languages such as C, C++ and OpenCL, and the COTS platform enables plug-and-play rapid prototyping deployment. The platform is built very reliably and has been serving in ultrasound systems for more than 10 years. In addition, the flexible FPGA architecture enables the lowest scan-to-image latency.
To put it simply, the XCKU085-1FLVA1517i FPGA chip has a variety of communication interfaces and protocols, supports a variety of development environments and operating systems, and provides comprehensive technical support and services. In summary, the programmable high-speed data processing and signal processing capabilities of FPGA chips make them suitable for a wide range of applications in high-end communications, computing, and image processing.