Creating a serial driver chip for commanding robotic arms

Author

Szabo, Roland ; Gontean, Aurel

Author_Institution

Appl. Electron. Dept., Politeh. Univ. of Timisoara, Timişoara, Romania

fYear

2013

fDate

8-11 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

667

Lastpage

670

Abstract

In this paper we shall present a serial driver chip creation on FPGA. We created this serial driver chip for the RS-232 interface and we programmed it to 115200 baud rate to be able to communicate with the Lynxmotion AL5 type robotic arms. This serial driver chip was made for bidirectional communication to be able to send and receive SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) commands on the serial interface. If we create the layout of this chip we can create our own ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) and this way we shall have a standalone chip which can control a robotic arm.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; driver circuits; field programmable gate arrays; motion control; peripheral interfaces; robots; ASIC; FPGA; Lynxmotion AL5 type robotic arms; RS-232 interface; SCPI; application-specific integrated circuit; bidirectional communication; commanding robotic arms; robotic arm control; serial driver chip; standard commands for programmable instruments; Connectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Manipulators; Ports (Computers); Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), 2013 Federated Conference on

Conference_Location

Krako??w

Type

conf

Filename

6644076