Title :
Optimal power flow utilizing FPGA technology
Author :
Murach, M. ; Nagvajara, P. ; Johnson, J. ; Nwankpa, C.
Abstract :
Optimal power flow (OPF) is a performance driven application in energy management systems that is currently performed on high-performance workstations. However, general purpose processors perform poorly due to irregular data structures commonly encountered in power system analysis. We propose the use of FPGA hardware to accelerate floating point performance in the evaluation of OPF. Our results indicate that LU performance can be enhanced by 6x and overall large-scale OPF computation by at least 3x using FPGA technology over general-purpose workstations.
Keywords :
energy management systems; field programmable gate arrays; floating point arithmetic; load flow; power engineering computing; FPGA technology; energy management systems; high-performance workstations; optimal power flow; point performance; power system analysis; Acceleration; Data structures; Energy management; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Large-scale systems; Load flow; Performance analysis; Power system analysis computing; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Power Symposium, 2005. Proceedings of the 37th Annual North American
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9255-8
DOI :
10.1109/NAPS.2005.1560508
