• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.1-8
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• 2020

In this paper, we present an implementation of high speed image data transfer using XDMA for a video signal generation / acquisition device developed as a military test equipment. The technology proposed in this study obtains efficiency by replacing the method of copying data using the system buffer in the kernel area with the transmission and reception through the DMA engine in the FPGA. For this study, the device was developed as a PXIe platform in consideration of life cycle, and performance was maximized by using a low-cost FPGA considering mass productivity. The video I/O board implemented in this paper was tested by changing the AXI interface clock frequency and link speed through the existing memory copy method. In addition, the board was constructed using the DMA engine of the FPGA, and as a result, it was confirmed that the transfer speed was increased from 5~8Hz to 140Hz. The proposed method will contribute to strengthening defense capability by reducing the cost of device development using the PXIe platform and increasing the technology level.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.1667-1674
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• 2018

Recently, speeding up real time calculation using the specialized hardware accelerator is often used in the various engineering and science area, and the accelerators are required to include PCI express interconnection between FPGA and a host computer. The implementation of the high speed PCIe for the multi-giga bytes per second transmission is one of the most difficult issue in the development of the accelerators. There are several commercialized IP solutions and research results in the literature, but these solutions are required extra cost and design period to analyze the detailed implementation method. For the hardware accelerator on Xilinx FPGA, utilizing Xilinx's XDMA PCIe IP, which is provided without extra charge, can be the best solution in terms of the development period and cost. Consequently, this paper presents the evaluation system on Zynq-7000 FPGA and Windows 10 host computer, and analyze the performance of the PCIe IP with various configuration parameters.