학술논문

System-on-Chip FPGA Devices for Complex Electrical Energy Systems Control
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine EEE Ind. Electron. Mag. Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE. 16(2):53-64 Jun, 2022
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Field programmable gate arrays
Control systems
Fabrics
Process control
Parallel processing
Multicore processing
Prognostics and health management
Language
ISSN
1932-4529
1941-0115
Abstract
Digital electronics has become a standard for controlling electrical systems. This is due to the constant improvement of the digital devices, whether in terms of density, performance, flexibility of use, or cost reduction [1]. This article looks into system-on-chip (SoC) field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for controlling complex electrical energy systems. These devices encompass multicore floating-point microprocessors embedded with standard peripherals and an FPGA fabric that allows the design of custom peripherals and specific hardware (HW) accelerators. Thus, SoC FPGA devices can be regarded as a good compromise between “super” microcontrollers (very fast in terms of computation but with a fixed microarchitecture) and pure FPGAs (ideal for specific concurrent microarchitectures but limited in terms of density).