Projects/USLO

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The aim of the project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a cheap and miniature ophthalmoscope based on versatile and portable MEMS scanning mirrors, capable of three-dimensional measurements of different structures of the fundus, including the optic nerve head, and functional measures requiring excitation. Such a device could be acquired by ophthalmologists, but also by general practice or paramedical staff (orthoptists, nurses and opticians) for the systematic and remote screening of glaucoma. This page describes the electronic system. For details about the optical system see TBD.

System

The proposed electronic system contains three main parts:

  • a controller
  • the mirror controller
  • the sensor data acquisition

TBD: schematic

The Controller forms the bridge between a computer on one side and the electronic circuitry on the other side. The computer is used to analyze and visualize the collected data. The electronic circuitry transforms the signals from the digital domain into the analogue domain of the mirrors and also from analogue to digital for the image sensor.

Hardware

Controller

The Controller is realized on a HEI FPGA-Rack FPGA board. This is a standard FPGA board used at UIT for various projects designed to fit in two rack units (2U). The controlling is implemented in the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX FPGA. The USB connector is used to send the collected data on to a computer. On the other side, the VME 96 pin connects to other electronic components used for signal transformation.

Mirror Controller

The mirrors' angle is controlled by current. Therefore we use an DAC to transform the digital signal from the FPGA into a tension, then a Howland Current Pump to transform the tension into current.

TBD: basic schematic

DAC

The DAC in use is the PCM1793 24-BIT, 192kHz Stereo D/A converter on the HEI PP Audio ADC DAC board. This DAC was chosen, because it fullfills the requirements of this project and we already had it ready to use on our Hardware/Parallelport/Audio_ADC_DAC PP Audio ADC DAC board.

Howland Current Pump

A Howloand Current Pump or Source is used to convert the voltage signal from the DAC into a current signal for the mirrors. Thereby we use the "Improved Howland Current Pump" (for more information please refer to AN-1515 A Comprehensive Study of the Howland Current Pump).

TBD: howland schematic and simulation

PP-backplane

USLO-rack-card.png

Synthesis Flow

HDL-Designer -> Synplify -> ISE


TBC

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