Abstract
This paper presents a complete procedure on prototyping using the FPGA of the STEMlab board and is intended to serve as a guide for developers, students and researchers interested in speeding up their projects and experiments. Due to the reconfigurability of its internal circuitry, being as simple as a code modification (using hardware description language), FPGA technology allows testing of several controller topologies and/or parameters without the need of any physical change at hardware. This feature allows a much faster development cycle of either commercial products or academic experiments. Besides the reconfigurability of the FPGA, the STEMlab board also offers the advantage of several peripheral already available, which includes, among others, high speed analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, Ethernet communication and a dual-core ARM processor capable of running a Linux operating system. In this paper, a didactic method of use of this board is presented, from getting started to a complete academic and industrial application: detection of early damage on an induction motor using frequency response analysis.
Highlights
Developers and academics in the engineering field have to face an increasing pressure to either reduce the time-tomarket of commercial products [1] or to ethically deal with the so called ‘‘Publish or Perish’’ mindset of the academia [2]
Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology allows hardware synthesis and reconfigurability into a tiny chip device. This characteristic is a tremendous advantage to any student/researcher/developer as an entire board of digital circuitry can fit into a tiny device and, even better, the entire circuit can be modified as desired by altering some lines on its hardware description language (HDL) (Hardware Description Language) code
The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Christian Pilato
Summary
Developers and academics in the engineering field have to face an increasing pressure to either reduce the time-tomarket of commercial products [1] or to ethically deal with the so called ‘‘Publish or Perish’’ mindset of the academia [2]. In both cases, the expected results are required to be achieved faster and faster. Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology allows hardware synthesis and reconfigurability into a tiny chip device. This characteristic is a tremendous advantage to any student/researcher/developer as an entire board of digital circuitry can fit into a tiny device and, even better, the entire circuit can be modified as desired by altering some lines on its HDL (Hardware Description Language) code.
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