• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.183-191
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• 2013

International network standards for SOLAS ship are composed of instrument network that controls and monitors machine in real time, shipboard control network that controls and monitors system through computer by human and telecommunication network that connects ship and shore. This paper describes development of stack for instrument network protocol complied with NMEA 2000 that is IEC 61162-3 international standards for SOLAS ship and also that of engine room monitoring system using the developed stack. Developed engine room monitoring system is certified by NMEA according to standards that require to pass about 1,600 test procedures.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.278-287
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• 2011

NMEA 2000 protocol known as IEC 61162-3 of Multi-talker, Multi-listener and Plug and Play network communication has been adopted as standard network for SOLAS(Safety of Life at Sea) ship by IMO. This paper focuses on the implementation of FPGA and MicroBlaze for NMEA 2000 based gateway, which is able to convert NMEA 2000 protocol into various types of network protocol such as Ethernet, UART and USB using Vertex4-based ML401 board. Each communication module and the stack of NMEA 2000 are mounted on FPGA. To be able to receive each communication data, ML401 board is configured to handle required communication speed. PC based NMEA 2000 monitoring program is developed to verify that data on different networks are correctly converted each other in real time.