High-speed data acquisition system design

As more and more products are hitting the market the technology driving them is becoming more and more complex. Many new products in market often have design and engineering costs that exceed production costs. The demand for more and faster form of physical systems and devices used for space and nuclear research and development and for industrial automation has produced many new and effective instrumentation systems for data acquisition. One example is the triggering and data acquisition system (DAQ) integrated into high-energy physics experiments. Parametrical and reprogrammable architectures are platforms for specialized embedded systems like high-speed data acquisition systems. In order to facilitate the design of specialized embedded systems, design strategies and tools are needed that greatly increase the efficiency of the design process. Many system designers, without training in low-level programming languages, are required to change the base design, compare designs, and generate configuration data for the reprogrammable platforms so end-user programmability of reprogrammable platforms is essential. This paper provides an insight to design data acquisition systems using reprogrammable platforms. This paper is also helps in evaluation of the same.