Wave Propagation Experiment on FPGA with Miniaturized Payload for Sounding Rocket Application

Sammanfattning: This bachelor's thesis aims to implement a wave propagation experiment on Field-Programmable Gate Array to detect the signal strength at pre-defined frequencies for use in sounding rocket experiments. This includes the choice of suitable components such as analog to digital converters, filters, voltage regulators, and amplifiers. The board prototype was designed by keeping in mind the need for a miniaturized solution that would still provide the wanted results, by following design guidelines. The second part of the project involves the design of the software in a hardware description language. An analysis in MATLAB® was done to determine the parameters needed to successfully reconstruct the transmitted signal on the receiver, while still being able to fit on the given FPGA. To make sure of that, a simulation was performed on ModelSim a tool for simulation and debugging for VHDL. From the simulations, it can be concluded that this design is feasible and that this project gives the basis for further development, to create a viable solution for a wave propagation experiment with a miniaturized payload.