Design and Implement of High-Accuracy On-Line Metal Thickness Measuring Instrument Based on NiosII Processor

Abstract:

The paper proposes a new design of high-accuracy On-line Metal Thickness Measuring Instrument, which was based on EP2C20 series FPGA chip, through adding NiosII soft processor and other interfaces to FPGA, equipped with high precision data collection system and TFT LCD module and so on. The key hardware blocks schematics and components of the RC Oscillation Circuit,eddy current sensor Circuit,rectifier and filter Circuit,A/D converting circuit,FPGA Circuit are described,software flow charts and sample codes are given. According to practice, The measurement range of this system is 1~100 mm and the resolving power is 0.1 μm. degree of linearity is 1%, The system has many features including small volume of hardware, low cost, high detecting precision, convenient operating, high intelligent and so on, leading to broad and bright future. Key words: NiosII processor; eddy current sensor; metal thickness

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 834-836)
• Pages: 930-934
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.834-836.930
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Shou Liang Yang, Bao Liang Yang
• Keywords: Eddy Current Sensor, Metal Thickness, NiosII Processor

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