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Creating Custom Motion Control and Drive Electronics with an FPGA-based COTS System
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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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Product Announcements
National Instruments - NI SoftMotion - Design Custom Motion Controllers
The NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW is for machine builders and OEMs creating custom motion controllers for better machine performance, and for researchers implementing advanced motion... (read more)
National Instruments - CompactRIO Integrated Systems
The new National Instruments CompactRIO integrated systems are advanced programmable automation controllers (PACs) that combine an industrial real-time processor and a reconfigurable FPGA within a... (read more)
National Instruments - NI CompactRIO Control and Acquisition System
The National Instruments CompactRIO programmable automation controller (PAC) is a low-cost reconfigurable control and acquisition system designed for applications that require high performance and... (read more)
National Instruments - 12-Inch HMI for LabVIEW Touch Panel Module
The NI TPC-2012 touch panel computer works with the NI LabVIEW 8.20 Touch Panel Module, giving control/design engineers another option for deploying LabVIEW on Windows CE HMI devices. (read more)
Invisar, Inc. - System Integration - Test - Instrumentation
Invisar designs and deploys test systems geared to the specialized needs of electronics, electro-mechanical, and complex equipment manufacturers; providing them high-performance production testing,... (read more)
Invisar, Inc. - Functional Test and Data Acquisition
Invisar designs and deploys test systems geared to the specialized needs of electronics, electro-mechanical, and complex equipment manufacturers; providing them high-performance production testing,... (read more)
Invisar, Inc. - Automated and Functional Test Systems
Invisar designs and deploys test systems geared to the specialized needs of electronics, electro-mechanical, and complex equipment manufacturers; providing them high-performance production testing,... (read more)
National Instruments - Sensors Expo & Conference 2008
Please join National Instruments in Booth 909 at the Sensors Expo & Conference 2008 in Rosemont, Illinois, June 10-11. (read more)
National Instruments - New National Instruments Motion Assistant 2.0
With NI Motion Assistant 2.0, you now can design a motion control application in an interactive 3D environment, convert it into C code for any C compiler, or into NI LabVIEW virtual instruments (VIs). (read more)
National Instruments - NI Signal Processing, Analysis & Math Resource Kit
Download the Signal Processing, Analysis and Math Resource Kit to learn how LabVIEW can help make sense out of raw data you need to manipulate, process, and analyze acquired data and extract... (read more)
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Jeff K, as he’s known in the LabVIEW community, has a unique vision for how people should program and who should program. He shares some exclusive thoughts with us on where he sees NI’s technology... (Read More)
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The debate over FPGAs as a viable alternative for ASICs and ASSPs has been ongoing for almost a decade. Industry analyst reports from iSupply, Gartner Dataquest, and others have well established the... (Read More)
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