To develop an embedded controller for stepping motor drive system

This research focuses on the stepping motor drive system design based on an embedded system constructed by Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). It is known that the flexibility and programmable abilities have made the FPGA be widely used as controllers to the electrical machines and systems. Above all, the high density of recent developed chip results in many of the CPU cores can be embedded into the chip to be programmed as controller. In that way, we chose the high density FPGA, Altera Cyclone II EP2C8Q208C8N, as the main chip to develop the motor drive and motion controller. The developed system was practically applied to a 3-axis motion platform to evaluate the system performance.