Seamless approach for the design of control systems for power electronics and electric drives

Today, the shortest time-to-market in the electric drives industries is being a pressing requirement, consequently development time of new algorithms and new control systems and debugging them must be minimized. This requirement can be satisfied only by using a well-defined System-level design methodology and by reducing the migration time between the algorithm development language and the hardware specification language. In this paper, we propose to apply the SpecC methodology to the the design of control systems for power electronics and electric drives. We first begin with an executable specification model of the control device. Then, we describe the different steps and transformations used to convert this model to a communication model, which can be then transformed to an implementation model ready for manufacturing.