Ultrasonic Positioning System

............................................................................................................................................................ 2 Table of contents ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 4 FPGA hardware .............................................................................................................................................. 4 FPGA Software ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Features not implemented ............................................................................................................................ 5 Theory ................................................................................................................................................................ 6 The different parts ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Transmitter .................................................................................................................................................... 7 Receivers ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 FPGA layout for positioning ........................................................................................................................... 8 MicroBlaze software ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Display (and corresponding FPGA layout) ..................................................................................................... 9 Hardware layout ...................................................................................................................................... 11 Problems encountered and how they were solved ........................................................................................ 12 Lessons Learned .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................................. 12 Contributions ............................................................................................................................................... 13 User Manual ................................................................................................................................................ 13 Appendix .......................................................................................................................................................... 14 Design Summary Report .............................................................................................................................. 15