Title :
An ASIC for die-sinking spark erosion simulations
Author :
Genoe, Mark ; Pioegaerts, W. ; Claesen, Luc ; De Man, Hugo J. ; Tricarico, Claude ; Delpretti, R. ; Dauw, Dirk
Author_Institution :
Interuniv. Micro Electron. Center, Leuven, Belgium
fDate :
29 May-1 Jun 1990
Abstract :
Electrical discharge machining (EMD) simulation has always been considered as a very hard problem, for reasons that such simulations are extremely computation intensive. However, the authors present a wide range of implementations for the die-sinking spark erosion process, which prove that EDM simulations are today executable in an acceptable time. All the implementations proposed here are designed in a fully automatic way, using the Cathedral Silicon Compilers System developed at IMEC-Heverlee. The results are compared with similar implementations on a TMS320 domain specific commercial signal processor. From the viewpoint of EDM-users, these simulations are very useful because the final results of this kind of thermo-electrical process are in no way predictable
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; digital signal processing chips; digital simulation; engineering computing; spark machining; ASIC; Cathedral Silicon Compilers System; TMS320; die-sinking spark erosion; electrical discharge machining; signal processor; simulations; thermo-electrical process; Application specific integrated circuits; Computational modeling; Context modeling; Electrodes; Geometry; Machining; Shape; Signal processing; Solid modeling; Sparks;
Conference_Titel :
Euro ASIC '90
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2066-8
DOI :
10.1109/EASIC.1990.207946
