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18 years agoHelp with FPGA correlator
Hi everyone, I'm new to FPGA design, and just find out this is the best place for seeking help as well as gaining experience. I'm designing an FPGA cross-correlator which correlates 8 bits data...
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18 years agoThanks all who has replied my thread. Much appreciate.
To OrchestraDirector: yeah, I've read the altmult_accum document, understand how it works, but still have no idea how many multiplier-accumulator is required in my design, did you mean 1 ? (1 mult_accum ---> 1 multiplier, right?), then I don't know how could I replace my 66 multipliers by just 1 mult_accum circuit, because most of the time, more than one multiplication needs to be carried out at one moment... Anyway, your suggestion gave me a brand new idea about correlator design. Thank you very much. To parrado: yes, I stop thinking about the FFT. However, I don't understand "Transpose Structure", googled it but so few found related result. Could you please provide me some links or documents ? That would be excellent. The FPGA correlator is used in a sound velocity sensor device, it correlates a 66 points reference signal (which can be transfered from the ROM of a microprocessor) with signals coming in from an ADC (I'm not sure about the A-D sampling fre, the layout said the A-D clock is 40Mhz, so I assumed the sampling frequency is 40Mhz) Thank you