A scalable FPGA hardware architecture based on crossbar for power electronics controller

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The FPGA is widely used in the power electronics controller to provide real-time control and parallel computing. The robustness and develop efficiency of FPGA affect the safe operation and development period of power electronic equipment, respectively. The existing works mainly focus on the FPGA hardware architecture oriented to one or several power electronic equipment. To improve the flexibility and scalability of FPGA in power electronics controller, this paper presents a novel hardware architecture based on crossbar, which can decouple different FPGA function modules. The proposed hardware architecture can significantly improve the FPGA scalable and accelerate the development period of power electronic equipment. A verification platform is also designed with the proposed hardware architecture. The implementation results show that the presented hardware architecture based on crossbar achieves better scalability and can decouple different function modules design, compared with the existing works.