Power Electronics HIL Testing Using Simscape to HDL Conversion

The growth of electric vehicles and renewable energy are examples of the increasing electrification driving the use of power electronics control.

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing is an accepted real-time simulation practice for validating controllers for power electronics systems. However, controller validation for power electronics can require running simulations at sampling frequencies of more than 1 MHz. This sampling time requirement is challenging for microcontroller-based test systems but can be achieved by auto-generating floating-point HDL from Simulink^® and Simscape™ models and running the code on FPGA-based real-time computers.

In this talk, you’ll learn how to create Simscape circuit models and deploy them to FPGAs in a Speedgoat real-time computer that can be used for testing a digital controller.