The diploma thesis is a part of the project Intelligent weighting and sorting of goods. The principle of measuring of weight from movement dynamics with derivation calculation relation is detailed described in the first part. The description of used automation means is also in the first part of the diploma thesis. The second part includes design of three adaptive control systems for controlling DC electromotor’s arm, communication principles between programmable logic controllers and designed code of program.

This diploma thesis discusses the connection trough the programmable automation (PLC) with a personal computer (PC) for the purpose of operating software simulation in NI LabVIEW. Diploma thesis is divided in two main parts. Design and manufacture of the communication unit, which is in charge of communication between PC and PLC and further programming simulation models in software NI LabVIEW.

The aim of this diploma paper is to design and implement a system of heating and irrigation. The system was designed for the premises of the garden shop located in Nové Město na Moravě. The new system shall replace the existing one as well as eliminate the use of human resources. The irrigation is done through a system of water pumps implemented in each of four green-houses. The heating is achieved through a system of hot air devices, and uses water as a transfer medium. The water is heated in a boiler using the new generation of solid propellants. The boiler is supplemented by solar collectors placed on the roof of the shop premises. The process is controlled by one of the programmable automatic devices made by Siemens, namely the S7-200 model. Temperature and humidity sensors are responsible for collection of the data. The paper also describes the technologies used and considered, the development environment and the construction components.

This thesis describes the design and implementation of device called Intelligent two-arm juggling machine. The role of the demonstration project is to control rotational movement of the arm so that the concept of the machine there to swap the ball to the opposite side shoulder. The project is divided into two theses, which this proposal addresses the above mentioned tasks, the machine and place the second level ofcooperative governance through visualization.

This master's thesis deals with the design and the C++ implementation of the Field Programmable Neural Networks (FPNNs) simulator. It briefly introduces the concept of artificial neural networks as it is the base of the FPNN concept. It presents the concept formal definitions and its calculation methods. The thesis also describes the special features of the FPNNs and the differences between the FPNNs and the classic neural networks. Furthermore, it deals with models of fault tolerant FPNNs. All the presented principles are used as the base of the developed implementation and the subsequent experiments.

abstract: With the exponential growth in video content over the period of the last few years, analysis of videos is becoming more crucial for many applications such as self-driving cars, healthcare, and traffic management. Most of these video analysis application uses deep learning algorithms such as convolution neural networks (CNN) because of their high accuracy in object detection. Thus enhancing the performance of CNN models become crucial for video analysis. CNN models are computationally-expensive operations and often require high-end graphics processing units (GPUs) for acceleration. However, for real-time applications in an energy-thermal constrained environment such as traffic management, GPUs are less preferred because of their high power consumption, limited energy efficiency. They are challenging to fit in a small place. To enable real-time video analytics in emerging large scale Internet of things (IoT) applications, the computation must happen at the network edge (near the cameras) in a distributed fashion. Thus, edge computing must be adopted. Recent studies have shown that field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are highly suitable for edge computing due to their architecture adaptiveness, high computational throughput for streaming processing, and high energy efficiency. This thesis presents a generic OpenCL-defined CNN accelerator architecture optimized for FPGA-based real-time video analytics on edge. The proposed CNN OpenCL kernel adopts a highly pipelined and parallelized 1-D systolic array architecture, which explores both spatial and temporal parallelism for energy efficiency CNN acceleration on FPGAs. The large fan-in and fan-out of computational units to the memory interface are identified as the limiting factor in existing designs that causes scalability issues, and solutions are proposed to resolve the issue with compiler automation. The proposed CNN kernel is highly scalable and parameterized by three architecture parameters, namely pe_num, reuse_fac, and vec_fac, which can be adapted to achieve 100% utilization of the coarse-grained computation resources (e.g., DSP blocks) for a given FPGA. The proposed CNN kernel is generic and can be used to accelerate a wide range of CNN models without recompiling the FPGA kernel hardware. The performance of Alexnet, Resnet-50, Retinanet, and Light-weight Retinanet has been measured by the proposed CNN kernel on Intel Arria 10 GX1150 FPGA. The measurement result shows that the proposed CNN kernel, when mapped with 100% utilization of computation resources, can achieve a latency of 11ms, 84ms, 1614.9ms, and 990.34ms for Alexnet, Resnet-50, Retinanet, and Light-weight Retinanet respectively when the input feature maps and weights are represented using 32-bit floating-point data type. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Electrical Engineering 2019

Seit einigen Jahren werden für den Entwurf anwendungsspezifischer Schaltungen verstärkt Field-Programmable Gate-Arrays (FPGAs) als Alternative zu maskenprogrammierten ASICs eingesetzt. Der Vorteil von FPGAs liegt vor allem in der schnellen und preiswerten Schaltungsentwicklung. Für den Entwurf von Schaltungen sind derzeit jedoch Software-Werkzeuge verschiedener Hersteller erforderlich. Im Rahmen eines von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten Projektes wurde gemeinsam mit der Universität Tübingen und der Technischen Universität München ein funktionsfähiges FPGA-Entwurfssystem entwickelt. Das in diesem Bericht vorgestellte Entwurfssystem beinhaltet alle wichtigen Synthese- und Layout-Komponenten zur Realisierung von Schaltungen auf FPGAs. Es wird eine Entwurfsmethodik vorgestellt, mit der alle notwendigen Entwurfsschritte bis zur Verdrahtung durchführbar sind. Ausgangspunkt ist dabei eine Schaltungsbeschreibung in verhaltensbasiertem VHDL. Für die einzelnen Systemkomponenten werden Software-Werkzeuge verwendet, die an den beteiligten Instituten entwickelt werden. Zur Ablaufsteuerung wurde eine Benutzeroberfläche entworfen, in die bisher die Technologieabbildung sowie das Layout integriert wurden.

Zur Verdrahtung der meisten FPGA-Architekturen können die aus dem ASIC-Entwurf stammenden Werkzeuge wie z.B. Kanalverdrahter nicht eingesetzt werden. Eine vollautomatische Verdrahtung mit optimalen Signallaufzeiten kann nur dann erreicht werden, wenn bei gegebener Plazierung die Leitungführung den technologischen Gegebenheiten angepaßt wird. Diese unterscheiden sich deutlich von denen in ASICs. Im Rahmen des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Gemeinschafts-Projekts „FPGA Entwurfssystem“, an dem die Universität Leipzig, die Universität Tübingen und die Technischen Universität München beteiligt sind, wurden am Lehrstuhl für Computersysteme (Prof. W.G. Spruth) des Instituts für Informatik der Universität Leipzig Verfahren zur effizienten und qualitativ hochwertigen Verdrahtung von FPGA-Bausteinen entwickelt. Es wird eine Beschreibung des Verdrahtungsproblems für FPGAs gegeben und ein Lösungsansatz mit Hilfe des Branch&Bound – Verfahrens vorgestellt. Die Ergebnisse in Form von Programmlaufzeiten, Länge des kritischen Pfades und Anzahl der betrachteten Suchknoten in Abhängigkeit von einer Vielzahl von Schaltungsvarianten sind tabellarisch dargestellt und dokumentieren eine deutliche Verkürzung der längsten Pfade gegenüber dem Plazier- und Verdrahtungswerkzeug von Xilinx. Abschließend werden Probleme und weiterführende Arbeiten diskutiert.

A user-friendly fully digital TDPAC-spectrometer with six detectors and fast digitizers using Field Programmable Gate Arrays is described and performance data are given.

Projektet går ut på att ersätta den befintliga styrningen av en DC-generator för 1200 kV med en fjärrstyrning från kontrollrummet via optolänk. Den nya styrningen ska utgöras av ett PLC-system (Programmable Logic Controller) som manövreras med hjälp av ett HMI – Human Machine Interface. Bakgrunden till projektet härrör från att den befintliga styrutrustningen är opålitlig samt styrs i en farlig miljö. Rapporten går igenom hur befintlig styrutrustning fungerar samt dess ingående komponenter, hur ett PLC-system fungerar med dess bakgrund och olika programmeringsspråk. Även programmeringen och byggnationen av det nya systemet avhandlas. I slutet av rapporten ges en genomgång av de provkörningar som utförts för att säkerställa att alla funktioner fungerar som tänkt. Resultat av provkörningarna ges och diskussion förs kring projektet. Projektet är utfört åt högspänningsgruppen på RISE i Borås som använder generatorn bland annat vid kalibrering av spänningsdelare. Det nya styrsystemet innefattar alla av den tidigare styrutrustningens funktioner och några nya funktioner så som överströms- och överspänningsskydd vilka slår från spänningsmatningen om dessa begränsningar överskrids. Att styrutrustningen nu är placerad i kontrollrumsmiljö gör att operatören kan hantera utrustningen utan att vara i närheten av farlig spänning. / The report aims to replace the current control equipment for a DC-generator for 1200 kV by remote control from control room through optical fibre link. The new control will be a PLC system controlled by a HMI – Human Machine Interface. The background to the project is that the existing control equipment is unreliable and controlled in a dangerous environment. The report shows how the current control equipment works and its constituent components, how a PLC-system works with its background and different programming languages. This report will also describe how the programming and building of the hardware are done. In the end of this report are going through a test run to confirm that the system is working properly. Result of the test run are given and some discussion. The project is initiated by the high voltage group at RISE in Borås, who are using the DC-generator for instance while calibrating voltage dividers. The new control system contains all of the functions from the earlier control system but also some new functions such as overcurrent and overvoltage protection who turns off power supply if the limits are exceeded. The control system is now located in the control room so that the operator can use the system without being close to high voltage.