An application of FPGA to high-speed programmable controller: development of the conversion program from SFC to Verilog

Author

Ikeshita, Makoto ; Takeda, Yuji ; Murakoshi, Hideki ; Funakubo, Noboru ; Miyazawa, Iko

Author_Institution

Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1386

Abstract

The high-speed programmable controller (PC) is required in factory automation (FA). Recently, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) are expected to be used for high-speed PC. Programming languages for a current PC are Ladder Diagram or Sequential Function Chart (SFC). On the other hand, programming languages for a FPGA are VHDL or Verilog-HDL. The authors have therefore developed a conversion program from SFC to Verilog-HDL. The paper reports on the conversion program

Keywords

factory automation; field programmable gate arrays; high level languages; program processors; programmable controllers; FPGA; Ladder Diagram; SFC to Verilog conversion; Sequential Function Chart; VHDL; Verilog-HDL; conversion program; factory automation; field programmable gate arrays; high-speed programmable controller; programming languages; Automatic control; Computer languages; Control systems; Electronic mail; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware design languages; Manufacturing automation; Personal communication networks; Programmable control; Valves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 1999. Proceedings. ETFA '99. 1999 7th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5670-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.1999.813151

Filename

813151