A VHDL-based methodology to develop high performance servo drivers

As global competition increases in the electronic product design industry, leading companies are looking for new ways to streamline their product development process. The new development methodology must be able to cope with several key issues such as: enable better collaboration between design team members, support design reuse, allow a unified framework for design and verification, and link the product design process more tightly with the enterprise's business systems. The aim of this work is to present a survey on the advancements introduced in the design of electronic circuits and discuss how they might be used by the industrial electronics industry to keep pace with this new wave of global competition. We present an electronic circuit design methodology that is based on PLDs devices and a HDL language, as well as exemplify the use of this methodology by presenting the results attained by some IP-cores aimed at motion control and power driver applications.