Role of Microprocessors, Digital ICS in Electric Drive Control and Significance of FPGA –Review Gunapriya B*, Sabrigiriraj M** *Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. gunapriya78@yahoo.in **Professor and Head, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SVS College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu, India Online published on 23 March, 2017. Abstract This paper presents review of the developments in microprocessors and digital ICs for electric drive control. High-performance processors such as digital signal processors (DSPs), reduced-instruction-set computing (RISC) processors, and parallel processors are studied. The capabilities of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) in motion control are examined. In this paper, a thorough survey is made on the advancement of the cost effective digital controllers, which utilize microcontrollers, DSPs, ASICs and Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) and special attention in the area of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Top Keywords Digital Signal Processors, FPGAs, ASICs, Microprocessors, PLDs. Top |