IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol.34, No.4, 2198-2208, 2019
Real-Time Multi-FPGA Simulation of Energy Conversion Systems
In this paper we present a solution for real-time multi-FPGA simulation of energy conversion systems based on the Latency-Based Linear Multistep Compound (LB-LMC) simulation approach. The approach relies on a nodal decomposition approach derived from multiport network analysis, and fast parallel communication between Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices. The results presented in this paper -using a microgrid example- demonstrate how the developed real-time platform overcame the resource scalability limit of single FPGA solvers while achieving a time step size of 100 nanoseconds.
Keywords:Field programmable gate arrays;Mathematical model;Real-time systems;Computational modeling;Energy conversion;Power electronics;Circuit simulation;parallel algorithms;power electronics;real time systems;power system simulations