Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (4): 1057-1066.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.04.04

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Design of scalable infrared information acquisition architecture based on ASIC and FPGA

Shuangxi ZHOU1,2,3, Lufang LI1,2, Qichao YU1, Shengli SUN1,2, Changqing LIN1,2,*, Yunfei LI4   

  1. 1. Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Intelligent Infrared Perception, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
    3. University of China Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    4. Shanghai Satellite Engineering Research Institute, Shanghai 201109, China
  • Received:2024-04-19 Online:2025-04-25 Published:2025-05-28
  • Contact: Changqing LIN

Abstract:

With the continuous development of remote sensing technology, ultra-large scale infrared detector components are gradually applied in the field of earth observation, which brings new requirements for information acquisition technology: simultaneously processing of hundreds of tap signals acquisition, conditioning, sampling, quantization and signal preprocessing with each tap readout frequency of up to 10 MHz or more. Aiming at the application scenario of a new large-scale infrared detector, a smart and highly integrated large-scale infrared information acquisition electronics architecture based on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is designed. With an expandable modular design, a single information acquisition module can collect 64-channel signals. When the analog to digital (AD) sampling rate of each channel is 12 mega samples per second (MSPS), the maximum data rate of the single channel module is not less than 12 Gbps, which realizes the integration of information acquisition, processing and transmission of ultra-large scale infrared detector, solves the problem of high-speed and low noise information acquisition of ultra-large scale infrared detector, and improves the integration of infrared camera. The test results of the infrared camera show that the infrared camera can simultaneously acquire more than 64 channels of detector signals and the AD conversion rate of per channel is 12 MSPS with the peak data rate of 12.288 Gbps. Circuit noise is less than 0.2 mV (rms) and the system noise is less than 0.6 mV (rms).

Key words: infrared camera, large scale, high integration, low noise, information acquisition

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