Design and Optimization of a Petri Net-Based Concurrent Control System toward a Reduction in the Resources in a Field-Programmable Gate Array

Abstract

A novel design technique of a Petri net-based concurrent control system is proposed in this paper. The idea is oriented on the effective implementation of the system within the FPGA device. In order to reduce the resources of the targeted device, the concurrent control system is optimized by the use of the authors’ techniques. The complete design flow is shown, including the modeling of the system by an interpreted Petri net, its further transformation to the hardware description language, adequate logic optimization, and final implementation within the destination FPGA. The presented method is explained by a case study example of the photovoltaic control system and compared with the already known technique. The performed experiments indicated a very high effectiveness of the proposed technique. It is shown that the photovoltaic control system designed according to the presented method reduces the logic resources of the destination FPGA device by up to 28%.