About the OPENCORE NMR project
Recently I (K.T) have developed an integrated, FPGA-based NMR spectrometer (Rev. Sci. Instrum. 78, 033103 (2007)). Its key feature is to let a single chip of Field-Programmable Gate-Array (FPGA) do all digital jobs required for an NMR spectrometer with core modules written in hardware description language.
Here, a kit for implementing the spectrometer inside FPGA is open to public. This kit, referred to as OPENCORE NMR, is composed of core modules such as pulse programmers, direct-digital synthesizers, a digital receiver composed of a digital quadrature demodulator and a digital low-pass filter, and a PC interface. There modules are written in VHDL, and the source codes are to be available, together with peripheral circuit modules as well as a console software.
A home-built NMR spectrometer can serve complementary roles to a sophisticated commercial spectrometer, should one comes across such new ideas that require heavy modification to hardware inside the spectrometer. This work can lower the barriar of building a handmade NMR spectrometer in the laboratory, and promote novel and exciting NMR experiments.
- Please feel free to use the resources here, but all rights are reserved.
- When the OPENCORE NMR kit is utilized in papers and/or presentations, reference should be given to:
K. Takeda, OPENCORE NMR: Open-source core modules for implementing an integrated FPGA-based NMR spectrometer, J. Magn. Reson. 192, 218-229 (2008).
K. Takeda, A highly integrated FPGA-based nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 78 (2007) 033103.
- Use AT YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY.
- The data are stored in a fully compatible format with TakeNMR, a 1D and 2D NMR-processing freeware written by Takegoshi.
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