Application of FPGA technology to accelerate the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method
FPGA '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM/SIGDA tenth international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays
FPGA-Based Acceleration of the 3D Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method
FCCM '04 Proceedings of the 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
3-D Thermal-ADI: a linear-time chip level transient thermal simulator
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
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This paper targets the efficient computational solution of the heat transfer processes that take place in the soil and at the soil-air interface and its use in non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques. In particular, the problem of the detection of plastic antipersonnel mines is considered. To this aim we projected a 3D finite-difference (FD) thermal model of the soil on a FPGA platform using Handel-C and VHDL. A speedup factor of 34 over a purely software solution is achieved, obtaining processing times that permit the use of the system on the field.