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Industrial motor-driven equipment accounts for more than two-thirds of
industrial energy consumption, making their efficient electrical
operation a vital component in factory expenses. The replacement of
traditional drives with variable speed drives (VSD) in motor-driven
systems provides significant efficiencies that can translate to up to
40% in energy savings. Because of the flexibility, performance,
integration, and design flow, FPGA architectures provide an effective platform for VSD systems.
Optimizing motor control designs requires versatile tools (and a practical tool flow) to help model
and simulate the system, implement complex algorithms with low latency,
and have the ability to integrate the system together and fine tune the
performance to the exact needs of the motor drive.
The system integration and embedded development tools described in this article help designers quickly
build the interfaces that connect a processor to a hardware accelerated
motor control algorithm designed in DSP Builder.
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