Model-Based Design and Prototyping of FPGA/SoC in an Aerospace Application

The objective of this project is the development of an embedded controller application using FPGA with significantly less time and cost and enhanced reliability. In a conventional method, these issues impact the project:

• Handshaking between multiple stakeholders and domains drives multiple iterations
• Bugs increase time and cost throughout the project lifecycle
• Limitations with virtual integration and early validation
• Reduced scope for reuse and early prototyping

Adoption of Model-Based Design for FPGA development enables seamless integration of different stakeholder needs, performs virtual integration, and automatically generates production code. This talk includes topics such as:

• Model-Based Design of an embedded controller for PMSM
• Virtual integration and simulation
• VHDL code generation and co-simulation

This talk will go over a detailed workflow to develop an embedded controller for an aerospace application from system requirements to design and code using Model-Based Design including:

• Requirements to model development in S-domain
• Virtual simulation to validate the architecture
• Development of a fixed-point model
• Development of a model for VHDL code generation
• Design and simulation of control systems with plant models using similar test cases from the MATLAB^® environment
• VHDL code generation and co-simulation of code using the same test cases and plant models
• Effective post-processing of results as a part of analysis and validation

This talk will also cover how Model-Based Design led to significant savings in terms of time and cost and how continued support from MathWorks led to effective incorporation of tools and methods enabling successful deployment.