Aiming at improving the 3D shape measurement speed and accuracy, the design of floating point algorithm for 3-D shape measurement using FPGA, is proposed. By using four-step phase shifting method for measuring 3D measurement system, using CORDIC algorithm to achieve phase calculation of the phase shift method, the algorithm is realized by Verilog language in FPGA, and to make simulation and verification in Modelsim. The study of 3D shape measurement system have a breakthrough from the design performance and hardware.Finally, the MATLAB simulation proved its effectiveness and viability.The experimental results show that the advantages of high data processing speed, high efficiency and high precision,etc.
