ASIC integration of bus protocol for distributed industrialelectromechanical system

摘要

In this paper an ASIC implementation of a novel bus protocol ispresented. This bus is designed to transmit data inside the lowest levelof hierarchy of an industrial automation system. Messages consist ofcontrol and measurement information between separate modules of adistributed actuator. The bus protocol circuit is designed to form amacrocell which can be used alone as a simple ASIC or as a communicationpart inside a larger ASIC. The bus protocol was first tested with FPGAcircuits and then implemented as an ASIC circuit