Design of Automatic Wire Drawing Machine Control System Based on ARM and FPGA

The wire drawing machine is a kind of highly automated metallica machine controlled by microcontroller, and it's used mainly in fabrication of wire in metal industry. Based on the analysis of the structure and theory of wire drawing machine, a doable design is discussed. A 32-bit ARM microprocessor and FPGA were used to be master controller and sub-controller respectively, and the automatic control of the embedded wire drawing machine was realized. It is worthwhile to be popularized for the control system with many advantages, such as high reliability and precision, low cost, and strong capability to be transplanted.