A RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY FOR BLIND SOURCE-SEPARATION ON AN FPGA

Ricardo Escalona, Daniel Herrera, Miguel Figueroa

2009

Abstract

We present a reconfigurable array which performs blind source separation on a range of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. Our array uses independent component analysis (ICA) with the InfoMax algorithm to separate a mixture of signals without an external reference. We describe two configurations of the array, representing distinct points in the design space. Our experimental results show a performance improvement of more than one order of magnitude over an optimized software implementation of the algorithm on a computer, with a power consumption of just 100mW. Our array successfully separates a fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) mixture into the source signals of mother and fetus, enabling medical analysis on the resulting independent components.

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Escalona R., Herrera D. and Figueroa M. (2009). A RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY FOR BLIND SOURCE-SEPARATION ON AN FPGA . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111- 64-7, pages 262-267. DOI: 10.5220/0001551902620267


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices09,
author={Ricardo Escalona and Daniel Herrera and Miguel Figueroa},
title={A RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY FOR BLIND SOURCE-SEPARATION ON AN FPGA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={262-267},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001551902620267},
isbn={978-989-8111- 64-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2009)
TI - A RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY FOR BLIND SOURCE-SEPARATION ON AN FPGA
SN - 978-989-8111- 64-7
AU - Escalona R.
AU - Herrera D.
AU - Figueroa M.
PY - 2009
SP - 262
EP - 267
DO - 10.5220/0001551902620267