The use of infrared (IR) images of the soil is an efficient technique to detect shallowly buried landmines. The detection is possible due to the different thermal properties of the soil and the mine. The core of this technique is the simulation of the heat transfer processes in the soil and at the soil-air interface. Simulation of these processes is a very long-time consuming task on ordinary computers. Its execution on dedicated hardware can reduce the computing time. In this paper we show the architecture of a system that simulates the thermal processes onto an FPGA, showing the feasibility of such a realization. © 2005 IEEE.
FPGA Finite Difference Time Domain Solver for Thermal Simulation / Pardo, F; Lopez, P; Cabello, D; Balsi, Marco. - 2005:(2005), pp. 721-722. (Intervento presentato al convegno Int. Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL'05) tenutosi a Tampere; Finland nel 24-26/8/2005) [10.1109/FPL.2005.1515825].
FPGA Finite Difference Time Domain Solver for Thermal Simulation
BALSI, Marco
2005
Abstract
The use of infrared (IR) images of the soil is an efficient technique to detect shallowly buried landmines. The detection is possible due to the different thermal properties of the soil and the mine. The core of this technique is the simulation of the heat transfer processes in the soil and at the soil-air interface. Simulation of these processes is a very long-time consuming task on ordinary computers. Its execution on dedicated hardware can reduce the computing time. In this paper we show the architecture of a system that simulates the thermal processes onto an FPGA, showing the feasibility of such a realization. © 2005 IEEE.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.