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1、.*使用LabVIEW FPGA模块开发可编程自动化控制器学院： 通信与电子工程学院 班级： 电子071 学号： 2007131010 姓名： 欧洪材 Building Programmable Automation Controllers with LabVIEW FPGAOverviewProgrammable Automation Controllers (PACs) are gaining acceptance within the industrial control market as the ideal solution for applications that require

2、 highly integrated analog and digital I/O, floating-point processing, and seamless connectivity to multiple processing nodes. National Instruments offers a variety of PAC solutions powered by one common software development environment, NI LabVIEW. With LabVIEW, you can build custom I/O interfaces f

3、or industrial applications using add-on software, such as the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module. With the LabVIEW FPGA Module and reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware, National Instruments delivers an intuitive, accessible solution for incorporating the flexibility and customizability of FPGA technology into indu

4、strial PAC systems. You can define the logic embedded in FPGA chips across the family of RIO hardware targets without knowing low-level hardware description languages (HDLs) or board-level hardware design details, as well as quickly define hardware for ultrahigh-speed control, customized timing and

5、synchronization, low-level signal processing, and custom I/O with analog, digital, and counters within a single device. You also can integrate your custom NI RIO hardware with image acquisition and analysis, motion control, and industrial protocols, such as CAN and RS232, to rapidly prototype and im

6、plement a complete PAC system.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. NI RIO Hardware for PACs 3. Building PACs with LabVIEW and the LabVIEW FPGA Module 4. FPGA Development Flow 5. Using NI SoftMotion to Create Custom Motion Controllers 6. Applications 7. Conclusion Introduction You can use graphical pr

7、ogramming in LabVIEW and the LabVIEW FPGA Module to configure the FPGA (field-programmable gate array) on NI RIO devices. RIO technology, the merging of LabVIEW graphical programming with FPGAs on NI RIO hardware, provides a flexible platform for creating sophisticated measurement and control system

8、s that you could previously create only with custom-designed hardware.An FPGA is a chip that consists of many unconfigured logic gates. Unlike the fixed, vendor-defined functionality of an ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chip, you can configure and reconfigure the logic on FPGAs for y

9、our specific application. FPGAs are used in applications where either the cost of developing and fabricating an ASIC is prohibitive, or the hardware must be reconfigured after being placed into service. The flexible, software-programmable architecture of FPGAs offer benefits such as high-performance

10、 execution of custom algorithms, precise timing and synchronization, rapid decision making, and simultaneous execution of parallel tasks. Today, FPGAs appear in such devices as instruments, consumer electronics, automobiles, aircraft, copy machines, and application-specific computer hardware. While

11、FPGAs are often used in industrial control products, FPGA functionality has not previously been made accessible to industrial control engineers. Defining FPGAs has historically required expertise using HDL programming or complex design tools used more by hardware design engineers than by control eng

12、ineers.Withinthetest-fixturethetxoutputofthetransmittermoduleisloopedbacktotherxinputofthereceivermodule.Thisallowsthetransmittermoduletobeusedastestsignalgeneratorforthereceivermodule.Datacanbewritteninparallelformattothetransmittermoduleandloopedbackinserialformattotherxinputofthereceivermodule,an

13、ddatareceivedcanfinallybereadoutinparallelformatfromthereceivermodule.InordertoautomatethetestingoftheUARTasmuchaspossible,treeindependentVerilogtaskswerewrittenasfollows.TheVerilog task“write_to_transmitter”holdsallnecessarystatementsrequiredtogenerateasingleparalleldatawritesequencetothetransmitte

14、rmodule.Datathatarewrittentothetransmitteruponexecutionofthe“write_to_transmitter”task,getlatchedinternaltothetest-fixtureforlateranalysis.TheVerilogtask“read_out_receiver”holdsallnecessarystatementsrequiredtogenerateasingle paralleldatareadoutsequencefromthereceivermodule.Datathatarereadoutoftherec

15、eiveruponexecutionofthe“read_out_receiver”task,getlatchedinternaltothetest-fixtureforlateranalysis.TheVerilogtask“compare_data”holdsallnecessarystatementsrequiredtocomparethepreviousdatawrittentothetransmittermodule,to thecorrespondingandmostrecentdatareceivedandreadoutfromthereceivermodule.Ifanydis

16、crepancyoccurs,the“compare_data”taskflagsforanerrorbywritingoutthedatavaluesthatwerewrittentothetransmittermodule,aswellasthecorrespondingdatavaluesthatwerereceivedbyandreadoutfromthereceivermodule.Thesimulationisimmediatelystoppedbythe“compare_data”taskifanydiscrepancyoccurs.Besidesthetreeabovement

17、ionedVerilogtasks,thetest-fixtureholdsthestatementstogeneratethemclkx16,themasterresetsignalsaswellasthe“txtorx”loopbackfeature.Thestatementsareconsideredtrivial,andwillnotbeillustratedhere,butcanbereferredtowithinthetest-fixtureitself.Thecoreofthetest-fixtureisabehaviorallevel“forloop”thatexecutest

18、hetreeabovementionedVerilogtasksinordertowriteallpossibledatacombinationstothetransmitterandverifythatsamedatagetsproperlyreceivedbythereceiver.Theforloopisshowed below in figure 21.Nexttoportdefinitionscomesportdirections.Directionsarespecifiedasinput,outputorinout(bidirectional),andcanbereferredto

19、intable1.Nexttothe specificationofportdirectionscomesdeclarationofinternalsignals.InternalsignalsinVerilogaredeclaredas“wire”or“reg”datatypes.Signalsofthe“wire”typeareusedforcontinuosassignments,alsocalledcombinatorialstatements.Signalsofthe“reg”typeareusedforassignmentswithintheVerilog“always”block

20、,oftenuseforsequentiallogicassignments,butnotnecessarily.ForfurtherexplanationseeaVerilogreferencebook.Datatypesoftheinternalsignalsofthemodulecanbereferredtointable3.Wehavenowpassedbyallnecessarydeclarations,andarenowreadytolookattheactualimplementation.Usinghardwaredescriptionlanguageallowsusto de

21、scribethefunctionofthetransmitterinamorebehavioralmanner,ratherthanfocusonitsactualimplementationatgatelevelInsoftwareprogramminglanguage, functionsandproceduresbreakslargerprogramsintomorereadable,manageableandcertainlymaintainablepieces.TheVeriloglanguageprovidesfunctionsandtasksasconstructs,analo

22、goustosoftwarefunctionsandprocedures.AVerilogfunctionand taskareusedastheequivalenttomultiplelinesofVerilogcode,wherecertaininputsorsignalsaffectscertainoutputsorvariables.Theuseoffunctionsandtasksusuallytakesplacewheremultiplelinesofcodearerepeatedlyusedinadesign,andhencemakesthedesigneasiertoreada

23、ndcertainlymaintain.AVerilogfunction canhavemultipleinputs,butalwayshaveonlyoneoutput,whiletheVerilogtaskcanhavebothmultipleinputs,andmultipleoutputsandeveninsomecases,nonofeach.BelowisshowntheVerilogtask,thatholdallnecessarysequentialstatements,todescribethetransmitterinthe“shift”modeWith the LabVI

24、EW FPGA Module and NI RIO hardware, you now can use LabVIEW, a high-level graphical development environment designed specifically for measurement and control applications, to create PACs that have the customization, flexibility, and high-performance of FPGAs. Because the LabVIEW FPGA Module configur

25、es custom circuitry in hardware, your system can process and generate synchronized analog and digital signals rapidly and deterministically. Figure 1 illustrates many of the NI RIO devices that you can configure using the LabVIEW FPGA Module.Figure 1. LabVIEW FPGA VI Block Diagram and RIO Hardware P

26、latforms NI RIO Hardware for PACs Historically, programming FPGAs has been limited to engineers who have in-depth knowledge of VHDL or other low-level design tools, which require overcoming a very steep learning curve. With the LabVIEW FPGA Module, NI has opened FPGA technology to a broader set of e

27、ngineers who can now define FPGA logic using LabVIEW graphical development. Measurement and control engineers can focus primarily on their test and control application, where their expertise lies, rather than the low-level semantics of transferring logic into the cells of the chip. The LabVIEW FPGA

28、Module model works because of the tight integration between the LabVIEW FPGA Module and the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware architecture of the FPGA and surrounding I/O components.National Instruments PACs provide modular, off-the-shelf platforms for your industrial control applications. Wi

29、th the implementation of RIO technology on PCI, PXI, and Compact Vision System platforms and the introduction of RIO-based CompactRIO, engineers now have the benefits of a COTS platform with the high-performance, flexibility, and customization benefits of FPGAs at their disposal to build PACs. Natio

30、nal Instruments PCI and PXI R Series plug-in devices provide analog and digital data acquisition and control for high-performance, user-configurable timing and synchronization, as well as onboard decision making on a single device. Using these off-the-shelf devices, you can extend your NI PXI or PCI

31、 industrial control system to include high-speed discrete and analog control, custom sensor interfaces, and precise timing and control. NI CompactRIO, a platform centered on RIO technology, provides a small, industrially rugged, modular PAC platform that gives you high-performance I/O and unpreceden

32、ted flexibility in system timing. You can use NI CompactRIO to build an embedded system for applications such as in-vehicle data acquisition, mobile NVH testing, and embedded machine control systems. The rugged NI CompactRIO system is industrially rated and certified, and it is designed for greater

33、than 50 g of shock at a temperature range of -40 to 70 C.NI Compact Vision System is a rugged machine vision package that withstands the harsh environments common in robotics, automated test, and industrial inspection systems. NI CVS-145x devices offer unprecedented I/O capabilities and network conn

34、ectivity for distributed machine vision applications.NI CVS-145x systems use IEEE 1394 (FireWire) technology, compatible with more than 40 cameras with a wide range of functionality, performance, and price. NI CVS-1455 and NI CVS-1456 devices contain configurable FPGAs so you can implement custom co

35、unters, timing, or motor control in your machine vision application.Building PACs with LabVIEW and the LabVIEW FPGA ModuleWith LabVIEW and the LabVIEW FPGA Module, you add significant flexibility and customization to your industrial control hardware. Because many PACs are already programmed using La

36、bVIEW, programming FPGAs with LabVIEW is easy because it uses the same LabVIEW development environment. When you target the FPGA on an NI RIO device, LabVIEW displays only the functions that can be implemented in the FPGA, further easing the use of LabVIEW to program FPGAs. The LabVIEW FPGA Module F

37、unctions palette includes typical LabVIEW structures and functions, such as While Loops, For Loops, Case Structures, and Sequence Structures as well as a dedicated set of LabVIEW FPGA-specific functions for math, signal generation and analysis, linear and nonlinear control, comparison logic, array a

38、nd cluster manipulation, occurrences, analog and digital I/O, and timing. You can use a combination of these functions to define logic and embed intelligence onto your NI RIO device.Figure 2 shows an FPGA application that implements a PID control algorithm on the NI RIO hardware and a host applicati

39、on on a Windows machine or an RT target that communicates with the NI RIO hardware. This application reads from analog input 0 (AI0), performs the PID calculation, and outputs the resulting data on analog output 0 (AO0). While the FPGA clock runs at 40 MHz the loop in this example runs much slower b

40、ecause each component takes longer than one-clock cycle to execute. Analog control loops can run on an FPGA at a rate of about 200 kHz. You can specify the clock rate at compile time. This example shows only one PID loop; however, creating additional functionality on the NI RIO device is merely a ma

41、tter of adding another While Loop. Unlike traditional PC processors, FPGAs are parallel processors. Adding additional loops to your application does not affect the performance of your PID loop.Figure 2. PID Control Using an Embedded LabVIEW FPGA VI with Corresponding LabVIEW Host VI. FPGA Developmen

42、t Flow After you create the LabVIEW FPGA VI, you compile the code to run on the NI RIO hardware. Depending on the complexity of your code and the specifications of your development system, compile time for an FPGA VI can range from minutes to several hours. To maximize development productivity, with

43、 the R Series RIO devices you can use a bit-accurate emulation mode so you can verify the logic of your design before initiating the compile process. When you target the FPGA Device Emulator, LabVIEW accesses I/O from the device and executes the VI logic on the Windows development computer. In this

44、mode, you can use the same debugging tools available in LabVIEW for Windows, such as execution highlighting, probes, and breakpoints.Once the LabVIEW FPGA code is compiled, you create a LabVIEW host VI to integrate your NI RIO hardware into the rest of your PAC system. Figure 3 illustrates the devel

45、opment process for creating an FPGA application. The host VI uses controls and indicators on the FPGA VI front panel to transfer data between the FPGA on the RIO device and the host processing engine. These front panel objects are represented as data registers within the FPGA. The host computer can

46、be either a PC or PXI controller running Windows or a PC, PXI controller, Compact Vision System, or CompactRIO controller running a real-time operating system (RTOS). In the above example, we exchange the set point, PID gains, loop rate, AI0, and AO0 data with the LabVIEW host VI.Figure 3. LabVIEW F

47、PGA Development FlowThe NI RIO device driver includes a set of functions to develop a communication interface to the FPGA. The first step in building a host VI is to open a reference to the FPGA VI and RIO device. The Open FPGA VI Reference function, as seen in Figure 2, also downloads and runs the compiled FPGA code during execution. After opening the re