FPGA-Based Detailed Real-Time Simulation of Power Converters and Electric Machines for EV HIL Applications

Herrera, Luis; Li, Cong; Yao, Xin; Wang, Jin

doi:10.1109/tia.2014.2350074

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“…In HIL simulation, CPUs and field‐programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide main hardware platforms that used for real‐time simulation of power electronic systems . FPGA has excellent parallel processing capabilities and very low I/O latency, which make it suitable for real‐time simulation of high frequency power electronic systems . However, its main disadvantages are the programming difficulty and limited hardware resources, which make it difficult to emulate very large‐scale power electronic systems .…”

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“…FPGA has excellent parallel processing capabilities and very low I/O latency, which make it suitable for real‐time simulation of high frequency power electronic systems . However, its main disadvantages are the programming difficulty and limited hardware resources, which make it difficult to emulate very large‐scale power electronic systems . CPU is less complicated in programming, but its large latency becomes a limiting factor for real‐time simulation .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…CPU is less complicated in programming, but its large latency becomes a limiting factor for real‐time simulation . As mentioned in Herrera et al, the minimum time step of typical CPU‐based simulation is 10 μs. Saad et al pointed out that time step of fully FPGA‐based simulation platform can reach at hundreds of nanoseconds, but model development for complex systems using FPGA is relatively difficult.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Another important factor in modeling actual electric circuits is their power losses . Currently, modeling complex electric circuits realistically in real‐time simulation is still a problem that attracts our attention .…”

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“…In Gragger et al, an averaged model of insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) inverter, which considers switching and conduction losses was implemented. In Herrera et al, equivalent methods for power switches to model the ON characteristics in real‐time simulation are studied. In Myaing and Dinavahi, realistic device‐level behavioral models of IGBT and diode were implemented in FPGA.…”

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Summary In this paper, a Hardware‐in‐the‐loop (HIL) simulation method for multiple fuel cells hybrid power system based on field‐programmable gate array (FPGA) + CPU architecture is presented. This paper is aiming to propose a parallel modular computing strategy in FPGA, which is used to reduce the programming difficulty and single‐step simulation time. In this strategy, different modules are modeled inside FPGA separately and are connected together to achieve the desired circuit by an interactive connection module. In this way, complex programming is not required when building a system. It only needs a combination of different modules, just like building blocks or modeling in Simulink. This strategy can reduce the programming difficulty greatly when developing complex models in FPGA. Furthermore, it is highly parallelizable to achieve a single‐step simulation time of 0.1 μs in FPGA. The simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the HIL simulation platform has the advantages of high speed, high precision, low cost, and easy to popularize.

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