This thesis formulates, and implements an automotive Anti-lock Brake System (ABS), reporting on its design simulation, synthesis, and eventual layout steps, from which extensions are drawn towards digital onto controllers FPGA technology, and the potential migration of the design onto ASIC technology. Implementation/environment fine-tuning of embedded controllers as such necessitate quickly prototyped circuit realizations. Examination of its functionality, real-time response, implementation, and testability is performed in an attempt to measure the usefulness of higher level design entry facilities such as VHDL in a rapid prototyping environment. Continuous on-line testing is included using aperiodic sample injections where the resultant generated values are compared to signatures known a priori, without compromising functionality. The achievable area and timing aid in the determination of the efficiency of the process and provide fuel for an FPGA and/or ASIC migration path for eventual implementation. Commentaries and generalized methodologies are assembled from the design's simulation, synthesis and layout utilizing VHDL and FPGAs, illustrating CAD tool capabilities/requirements/limitations, with respect to real-time synthesis and rapid prototyping of general controller applications involving asynchronous elements. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.22654 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Hold, Betina K. |
| Contributors | Agarwal, V. K. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering (Department of Electrical Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001448176, proquestno: MM05453, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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