Field-programmable Gate Array in Miniature Ion Mobility Spectrometer Sensor System

This paper presents the use of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) in a miniature Ion Mobility Spectrometer (IMS) sensor system. This IMS sensor is for detection of subsurface gaseous volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This paper describes how an FPGA is used to process the data collected from the sensor and control its overall operation. A Xilinx Microblaze soft-core processor is used to ease the development of the signal-conditioning algorithm.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CSREAESA
• Authors: Jon Cole, S. M. Loo, Robert Youngberg, Jake Baker, Molly Gribb
• Keywords: CSREAESA 2006, CSREAESA 2007, Field-programmable Gate Array, Ion Mobility Spectrometer, Sensor