FPGA-Based Lightning Sensor

Seah, Boon York (2017) FPGA-Based Lightning Sensor. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Lightning has been a mysterious natural phenomenon since ancient time.People used to fear and worship the lightning and took it as the wrath of God.Although the phenomenon of lightning has been revealed as the transmission of electrical discharges,there are still many unknown areas inside the occasion of lightning itself such as the positron,the contents of the emission in lightning flashes and so on.Thus,the studies or researches about lightning are still a hot topic and being carried out until nowadays.Many equipment involved during these researches but they are very expensive and turn out to be a costly budget to the whole research or studies for example,PicoScope.This PicoScope is a PC software developed by Pica Technology Inc.which a lot of functionalities such as oscilloscope and digitizer. However,the market pricing for a standard PicoScope package nowadays is around RM 8,000.A master kit of PicoScope can even reach more that RM10,000 per unit. Thus,this project is carried out to make a low-cost digitizer by implementing the module (syntax) onto the FPGA board so that it will be running as a digitizer.Why is this digitizer so important?As we know,the signals from this real world,including lighting signals are in the analog form which cannot be understand by the electronics components which communicate in digital form. Therefore,implementing the FPGA board as the ADC is of great use and help in converting the realworld signals and further processing to extract vital information from the lightning signals.

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