Text-to-Braille Translator in a Chip

Zhang, Xuan; Ortega-Sanchez, Cesar; Murray, Iain

doi:10.1109/ICECE.2006.355685

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Authors

Zhang, Xuan

Ortega-Sanchez, Cesar

Murray, Iain

Date

2006

Type

Conference Paper

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Citation

Zhang, Xuan and Ortega-Sanchez, Cesar and Murray, Iain. 2006. Text-to-braille translator in a chip, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dec 19-21 2006, pp. 530-533. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

Source Title

Procs. 4th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Source Conference

International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

DOI

10.1109/ICECE.2006.355685

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering and Computing

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Division of Engineering, Science and Computing

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12628

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

This paper describes the hardware implementation of a text to Braille Translator using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Different from most commercial software-based translators, the circuit presented in this paper is able to carry out text-to-Braille translation in hardware. The translator is based on the translating algorithm, proposed by Paul Blenkhorn (Blenkhorn 1997). The Very high speed Hardware Description Language (VHDL) was used to describe the chip in a hierarchical way. The test results indicate that the hardware-based translator achieves the same results as software-based commercial translators, with superior throughput.