Design and test of a new development FPGA board for mobile robot research

Authors: BALIGH NAJI, CHOKRI ABDELMOULA, KARIM ABBES, MOHAMED MASMOUDI

Abstract: This paper presents the design and testing of a newly developed field programmable gate array (FPGA) board for mobile robot research. The idea consists of interfacing the FPGA to a 16-bit digital signal controller (dsPIC). This idea enables the FPGA designs to communicate with the dsPIC through the integration of per-written driver modules to be used in a wide variety of digital and analog peripheral modules. It also allows the use of a high-performance digital signal processing core in many signal processing-based mobile robot applications. The proposed FPGA board allows users to develop, test, and deploy quick and cost-effective complete design solutions to control the entire robot system in various applications without the need for external components.

Keywords: Digital signal controller, electronic design automation tools, field programmable gate array, robotics applications

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