FPGA Accelerator for Real-Time Emulation of Power Electronic Systems Using Multiport Decomposition

Strategies to implement emulation of large power electronic converters with different topologies using a generic multiport decomposition technique with different levels by exploiting the parallel nature of field programmable gate array (FPGA) are explained in this article. Switches are modeled as ON/OFF resistors and a Python-based software tool is developed to precompute the system matrices corresponding to each switch combination. Converters like three-phase five-level-flying-capacitor are modeled inC using the precomputed data, converted to VHDL and implemented on ZCU104 and ZedBoard using Vivado and verified against the corresponding MATLAB-Simulink model. Also, the real-time performance is analyzed by connecting it for the closed-loop speed control of induction motors of various specifications by changing the load torque and reference speed and found out that the latency is less than 6 μs, which is sufficient for the wide range of variable frequency drive applications.