An FPGA HIL Reconfigurable Testing Platform for Vehicular Traction Systems

This paper explains a real-time simulator configured for the testing of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives, Switched Reluctance Motor Drives and Induction Motor Drives along with the associated power electronics, like boost and buck converters. The technology is based on FPGA and is coded in a way that a unique bitstream can be used for all power electronic topology and parameters, therefore avoiding the typically very long compilation time of FPGAs. This paper highlights one such solver called eHS that enables test engineers to model user defined power electronic topologies and simulate them on the real-time simulator in a matter of minutes.