In modern manufacturing equipment control area,controller is required to deliver higher computing capability for adopting advanced algorithms to meet speed and accuracy requirements,and reconfigurabilities for changing or(and)adding features or functions.This paper presents a methodology in design and implementation of a high performance and reconfigurable platform for manufacturing equipment control.This methodology is in virtue of system on a programmable chip(SoPC)technolo- gy but replacing the on-chip processor by an external high performance,floating-point digital signal processor(DSP).The appli- cation of the DSP is designed as a multi-threaded framework,which has more flexibilities than a traditional single-loop one.Fur- thermore,the field programmable gate array(FPGA)system can be reconfigured easily and quickly to meet a new requirement by dragging and dropping pre-built components in a SoPC building environment.As a result,the controller platform is more recon- figurable in terms of algorithms and functions.This platform is implemented in a 3-axis milling machine control and the result indicates that the design and implementation presented in this paper is feasible.

Development of a Reconfigurable Platform for Manufacturing Equipment ControlFENG Shouting LI Di CHENG Xiangyu College of Mechanical Engineering,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510640,ChinaIn modern manufacturing equipment control area,controller is required to deliver higher computing capability for adopting advanced algorithms to meet speed and accuracy requirements,and reconfigurabilities for changing or(and)adding features or functions.This paper presents a methodology in design and implementation of a high performance and reconfigurable platform for manufacturing equipment control.This methodology is in virtue of system on a programmable chip(SoPC)technolo- gy but replacing the on-chip processor by an external high performance,floating-point digital signal processor(DSP).The appli- cation of the DSP is designed as a multi-threaded framework,which has more flexibilities than a traditional single-loop one.Fur- thermore,the field programmable gate array(FPGA)system can be reconfigured easily and quickly to meet a new requirement by dragging and dropping pre-built components in a SoPC building environment.As a result,the controller platform is more recon- figurable in terms of algorithms and functions.This platform is implemented in a 3-axis milling machine control and the result indicates that the design and implementation presented in this paper is feasible.machine tool control;;digital signal processor;;field programmable gate array;;system on a programmable chip