This project involved the design of a new Transient Pulse Monitor (TPM) for the recording of key characteristics of lightning strikes and other transient pulses in the vicinity of spacecraft launch sites, to be used in a comprehensive Online Lightning Monitoring System (OLMS). This report documents the design for implementation on Signatec Digitizer boards, using an internal FPGA for processing, a 16-bit ADC to read sensor signals, and a PCI-X bus to interface with a central server. The design was completed using VHDL and Verilog and simulated. Progress was also made in debugging of the code on the physical FPGA.

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Creator

• Chaturvedi, Gaurav
• Briskey, Emily J
• Hyde, Michael C.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030909-160052

Advisor

• Orr, John A.

Year

• 2009

Center

• Silicon Valley, California Project Center - MQP

Sponsor

• SRI International

Date created

• 2009-03-09

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright