The Gluion Advantages of an FPGA-based Sensor Interface

Sukandar Kartadinata

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

The gluion is a sensor interface that was designed to overcomesome of the limitations of more traditional designs based onmicrocontrollers, which only provide a small, fixed number ofdigital modules such as counters and serial interfaces. These areoften required to handle sensors where the physical parametercannot easily be converted into a voltage. Other sensors arepacked into modules that include converters and communicatevia SPI or I2C. Finallly, many designs require outputcapabilities beyond simple on/off.The gluion approaches these challenges thru its FPGA-baseddesign which allows for a large number of digital I/O modules.It also provides superior flexibility regarding theirconfiguration, resolution, and functionality. In addition, theFPGA enables a software implementation of the host link --- inthe case of the gluion the OSC protocol as well as theunderlying Ethernet layers.

Citation

Sukandar Kartadinata. 2006. The Gluion Advantages of an FPGA-based Sensor Interface. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1176937

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Kartadinata2006,
 abstract = {The gluion is a sensor interface that was designed to overcomesome of the limitations of more traditional designs based onmicrocontrollers, which only provide a small, fixed number ofdigital modules such as counters and serial interfaces. These areoften required to handle sensors where the physical parametercannot easily be converted into a voltage. Other sensors arepacked into modules that include converters and communicatevia SPI or I2C. Finallly, many designs require outputcapabilities beyond simple on/off.The gluion approaches these challenges thru its FPGA-baseddesign which allows for a large number of digital I/O modules.It also provides superior flexibility regarding theirconfiguration, resolution, and functionality. In addition, theFPGA enables a software implementation of the host link --- inthe case of the gluion the OSC protocol as well as theunderlying Ethernet layers.},
 address = {Paris, France},
 author = {Kartadinata, Sukandar},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1176937},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {actuators,digital sensors,fpga,osc,sensor interfaces},
 pages = {93--96},
 title = {The Gluion Advantages of an {FPGA}-based Sensor Interface},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2006/nime2006_093.pdf},
 year = {2006}
}