A new compact control unit for CNC using SoCs technology

Author

Assar, Kh.M. ; Ashour, I.S. ; Saad, E.M. ; Rashid, A.M.

Author_Institution

Al Azhar Univ., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2003

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

318

Lastpage

321

Abstract

This paper introduces a new complete design and implementation of a System on Chip (SoC) control unit for three dimensions CNC, using FPGA technology. Intelligent controlling software is designed and integrated in the system using a standard HPGL format. A new communication strategy for optimum utilization of the required integrated memory is introduced and implemented. The new SoC design has achieved an overall resolution of 2 micron in three-dimensional operations. The introduced SoC system replaces the microprocessors and microcontrollers based CNC control unit with highly sophisticated control circuits and also has the advantages that it can be upgraded, expanded and run at very high frequencies in comparison with microprocessor based systems.

Keywords

computerised numerical control; digital control; field programmable gate arrays; intelligent control; system-on-chip; CNC control unit; FPGA; Hewlet Packed Graphical Language; SoC technology; compact control unit; integrated memory; intelligent controlling software; system on chip; three-dimensional operation; Communication system control; Computer numerical control; Control systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Microcontrollers; Microprocessors; Software design; Software standards; System-on-a-chip; VHF circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics, 2003. ICM 2003. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

977-05-2010-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM.2003.1287822

Filename

1287822