Exploiting Partial Reconfiguration through PCIe for a Microphone Array Network Emulator
The current Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology enables the deployment of relatively low-cost wireless sensor networks composed of MEMS microphone arrays for accurate sound source localization. However, the evaluation and the selection of the most accurate and power-efficient network’s...
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| description | The current Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology enables the deployment of relatively low-cost wireless sensor networks composed of MEMS microphone arrays for accurate sound source localization. However, the evaluation and the selection of the most accurate and power-efficient network’s topology are not trivial when considering dynamic MEMS microphone arrays. Although software simulators are usually considered, they consist of high-computational intensive tasks, which require hours to days to be completed. In this paper, we present an FPGA-based platform to emulate a network of microphone arrays. Our platform provides a controlled simulated acoustic environment, able to evaluate the impact of different network configurations such as the number of microphones per array, the network’s topology, or the used detection method. Data fusion techniques, combining the data collected by each node, are used in this platform. The platform is designed to exploit the FPGA’s partial reconfiguration feature to increase the flexibility of the network emulator as well as to increase performance thanks to the use of the PCI-express high-bandwidth interface. On the one hand, the network emulator presents a higher flexibility by partially reconfiguring the nodes’ architecture in runtime. On the other hand, a set of strategies and heuristics to properly use partial reconfiguration allows the acceleration of the emulation by exploiting the execution parallelism. Several experiments are presented to demonstrate some of the capabilities of our platform and the benefits of using partial reconfiguration. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c835112962814624bd5c7ba81b0cc8c02025-02-03T01:30:08ZengWileyInternational Journal of Reconfigurable Computing1687-71951687-72092018-01-01201810.1155/2018/32146793214679Exploiting Partial Reconfiguration through PCIe for a Microphone Array Network EmulatorBruno da Silva0An Braeken1Federico Domínguez2Abdellah Touhafi3Department of Industrial Sciences (INDI), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, BelgiumDepartment of Industrial Sciences (INDI), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, BelgiumEscuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, EcuadorDepartment of Industrial Sciences (INDI), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, BelgiumThe current Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology enables the deployment of relatively low-cost wireless sensor networks composed of MEMS microphone arrays for accurate sound source localization. However, the evaluation and the selection of the most accurate and power-efficient network’s topology are not trivial when considering dynamic MEMS microphone arrays. Although software simulators are usually considered, they consist of high-computational intensive tasks, which require hours to days to be completed. In this paper, we present an FPGA-based platform to emulate a network of microphone arrays. Our platform provides a controlled simulated acoustic environment, able to evaluate the impact of different network configurations such as the number of microphones per array, the network’s topology, or the used detection method. Data fusion techniques, combining the data collected by each node, are used in this platform. The platform is designed to exploit the FPGA’s partial reconfiguration feature to increase the flexibility of the network emulator as well as to increase performance thanks to the use of the PCI-express high-bandwidth interface. On the one hand, the network emulator presents a higher flexibility by partially reconfiguring the nodes’ architecture in runtime. On the other hand, a set of strategies and heuristics to properly use partial reconfiguration allows the acceleration of the emulation by exploiting the execution parallelism. Several experiments are presented to demonstrate some of the capabilities of our platform and the benefits of using partial reconfiguration.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3214679 |
| spellingShingle | Bruno da Silva An Braeken Federico Domínguez Abdellah Touhafi Exploiting Partial Reconfiguration through PCIe for a Microphone Array Network Emulator International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing |
| title | Exploiting Partial Reconfiguration through PCIe for a Microphone Array Network Emulator |
| title_full | Exploiting Partial Reconfiguration through PCIe for a Microphone Array Network Emulator |
| title_fullStr | Exploiting Partial Reconfiguration through PCIe for a Microphone Array Network Emulator |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploiting Partial Reconfiguration through PCIe for a Microphone Array Network Emulator |
| title_short | Exploiting Partial Reconfiguration through PCIe for a Microphone Array Network Emulator |
| title_sort | exploiting partial reconfiguration through pcie for a microphone array network emulator |
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