An ASIC for die-sinking spark erosion simulations

Author

Genoe, Mark ; Pioegaerts, W. ; Claesen, Luc ; De Man, Hugo J. ; Tricarico, Claude ; Delpretti, R. ; Dauw, Dirk

Author_Institution

Interuniv. Micro Electron. Center, Leuven, Belgium

fYear

1990

fDate

29 May-1 Jun 1990

Firstpage

236

Lastpage

239

Abstract

Electrical discharge machining (EMD) simulation has always been considered as a very hard problem, for reasons that such simulations are extremely computation intensive. However, the authors present a wide range of implementations for the die-sinking spark erosion process, which prove that EDM simulations are today executable in an acceptable time. All the implementations proposed here are designed in a fully automatic way, using the Cathedral Silicon Compilers System developed at IMEC-Heverlee. The results are compared with similar implementations on a TMS320 domain specific commercial signal processor. From the viewpoint of EDM-users, these simulations are very useful because the final results of this kind of thermo-electrical process are in no way predictable

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; digital signal processing chips; digital simulation; engineering computing; spark machining; ASIC; Cathedral Silicon Compilers System; TMS320; die-sinking spark erosion; electrical discharge machining; signal processor; simulations; thermo-electrical process; Application specific integrated circuits; Computational modeling; Context modeling; Electrodes; Geometry; Machining; Shape; Signal processing; Solid modeling; Sparks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Euro ASIC '90

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2066-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EASIC.1990.207946

Filename

207946