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A Dynamic FPGA-based Hardware-in-the-Loop Co-simulation and Prototype Testing Platform

Authors:
Clément Foucher
Alexandre Nketsa

Keywords: Co-simulation; Prototyping; Hardware-in-the-Loop; Reconfigurable Architectures.

Abstract:
The base idea of co-simulation is to couple heterogeneous simulators in a single environment. This allows for choosing the best-suited simulator to represent each part of a complex system. Hardware-in-the-loop co-simulation introduces physical components in a software co-simulation. In this paper, we propose a hardware-in-the-loop co-simulation platform using a dynamically reconfigurable architecture on FPGAs. Main uses for this technology include introducing prototypes of digital systems directly in the simulation environment, and accelerating simulation by using FPGAs to implement models that can take advantage of parallelism. The platform was validated by coupling a C++ application with hardware modules loaded on-demand on a FPGA.

Pages: 68 to 73

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: April 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4243

ISBN: 978-1-61208-399-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 19, 2015 to April 24, 2015