System-on-a-chip approach for industrial robotic controller design

The driving forces in developing a methodology to convert board-level designs to chip are design productivity and profit. The methodology gives significant productivity through reuse of existing designs. It must overcome on-chip system design bottlenecks; functional verification and timing convergence. Decisions must be made on components to be integrated on the same silicon, and hardware-software co-simulation strategy. This paper describes a system-on-a-chip design approach in developing a robotic controller for industrial applications.