Embedded FPGA Simulator for Wireless Sensor Network Design

作     者：Nasreddine Nadim Boizard Jean Louis Christophe Escriba Foumiols Jean Yves 

作者机构：Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems University of Toulouse Toulouse F-31077 France 

出 版 物：《Journal of Energy and Power Engineering》 (能源与动力工程（美国大卫英文）)

年 卷 期：2012年第6卷第6期

页      面：984-992页

学科分类：080202[工学-机械电子工程] 08[工学] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0835[工学-软件工程] 081202[工学-计算机软件与理论] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：WSN FPGA VHDL BER PER. 

摘      要：The design, manufacture and deployment of embedded systems become increasingly complex and multidisciplinary process. Before the steps of manufacturing and deployment, a simulation and validation phase is necessary. In this paper, a WSN （wireless sensors network） emulator, implemented on a FPGA, is described by： describing some models as examples, how multiple simulations can be done when the device was configured and programmed once, and how results from the behavioral emulator can be extracted. The diversity of applications and the typically scarce node resources set very tight constraints to WSN. It is not possible to fulfill all requirements with a general purpose WSN, for which reason the rapid development of application specific WSNs is preferred. A new emulator for the design, simulation, and evaluation of WSNs, implemented on a very dense FPGA （field programmable gate arrays）, is presented, exploring the parallelism and his resources to do a very rapid simulation ofa WSN for long periods, and without overloading memory by the intermediate data.