FPGA-based Brushless Synchronous Generator Real-Time Emulator for Digital Controllers Testing

摘要

The aim of this paper is to present a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based realtime emulator of a brushless synchronous generator. This emulator is intended for testing digital controllers in the context of Hardware In-the Loop validation. The developed FPGA-based emulator has been implemented and validated on a low-cost Xilinx Spartan-6 target. The obtained real time results are given and an evaluation of time/area performances is achieved.