FPGA-based Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Simulation for Power Electronics

Highlights

• Generating floating-point HDL code using HDL Coder
• Directly converting Simscape models to HDL code using the Simscape to HDL Advisor
  
• Deploying HDL code to a Speedgoat real-time target machine

About the Presenter

Joel Van Sickel is an application engineer at MathWorks who focuses on electrical simulation and control.  He specializes in power electronics and power systems.  He worked at Raytheon for five years designing power supplies for radar systems before coming to MathWorks.  Prior to working for Raytheon, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University for work on distributed control of power systems in 2010.