Design of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Based Emulators for Motor Control Applications

摘要

Problem Statement: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuits play asignificant role in major recent embedded process control designs. However,exploiting these platforms requires deep hardware conception skills and remainsan important time consuming stage in a design flow. High Level Synthesistechnique avoids this bottleneck and increases design productivity as witnessedby industry specialists. Approach: This study proposes to apply this techniquefor the conception and implementation of a Real Time Direct Current Machine(RTDCM) emulator for an embedded control application. Results: SeveralFPGA-based configuration scenarios are studied. A series of tests includingdesign and timing-precision analysis were conducted to discuss and validate theobtained hardware architectures. Conclusion/Recommendations: The proposedmethodology has accelerated the design time besides it has provided an extratime to refine the hardware core of the DCM emulator. The high level synthesistechnique can be applied to the control field especially to test with low costand short delays newest algorithms and motor models.