FPGA-accelerated Simulink simulations of electrical machines

Author

Kredo, Kurtis ; Zenor, John ; Bednar, Richard ; Crosbie, Roy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California State Univ., Chico, CA, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

21-24 June 2015

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

79

Abstract

This paper presents work that uses field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to accelerate Simulink simulations of electrical machines on a desktop computer by more than 100 times. These simulations operate and can be modified transparently in the Simulink environment with no FPGA expertise required. This offers the prospect of low-cost, high performance simulation workstations supporting large simulations that do not require excessive execution times. Additionally, the work includes multi-rate and limited non-linear capabilities.

Keywords

electric machine analysis computing; field programmable gate arrays; power system simulation; FPGA-accelerated Simulink simulation; desktop computer; electrical machines; field programmable gate arrays; Computational modeling; Field programmable gate arrays; Induction motors; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; Software packages; Synchronous motors; FPGA; Matlab; Simulink; electrical machines; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Alexandria, VA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1856-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESTS.2015.7157864

Filename

7157864