FPGA and Mixed FPGA-DSP Implementations of Electrical Drive Algorithms

This paper deals with the implementation of control algorithms for alternative current (ac) motors using co-design methodology for hard or mixed hardware/software solutions. The authors focus on the design flow and experiments using FPGA / DSP platform. A full FPGA implementation of the well-known field oriented control strategy is presented. In a next step a mixed FPGA / DSP platform is presented associated with preliminary results concerning a mixed implementation of the scalar control algorithm.