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Creating Custom Motion Control and Drive Electronics with an FPGA-based COTS System

From National Instruments
 

 
Complex machines in semiconductor, electronics, packaging, medical, biotech, and micro manufacturing often have tough performance requirements for motion control. When traditional PLC or PC-based motion controllers fail to meet these requirements, machine builders turn to custom board development - a time consuming and expensive process. Recent advances in embedded technologies have made it possible to use FPGA-based COTS platforms to not only meet those requirements, but also to get to market faster by using graphical system design. This whitepaper discusses the basic software and hardware architecture for creating your own FPGA-based motion control system and drive electronics with NI CompactRIO and NI LabVIEW
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