System level design is in the air. This is also true for motor control applications.
Up to now, this blog has mainly focused on commenting third-party articles relating to FPGA as a chip for embedded system development in power electronics applications, mostly for motor control. Unfortunately, most of those third-party articles have been written with an ”old” chip thinking comparing FPGA solely […]
According to this EEtimes article, the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) took the opportunity of being at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to release a very well written 25 pages document titled “The Home Appliance Industry’s Principles & Requirements for Achieving a Widely Accepted Smart Grid“. In this document, the AHAM - […]
Kevin Morris’ most recent article of FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal makes a very humourous but interesting analogy between FPGA vs ASICs design battle and the battle that occured not so long ago between car cars vs horses as a mean of transportation :
“The new BMW 5-series sedan outperforms the horse and buggy in every important way. Your […]
The current economic slowdown challenges every business model what the following question: how can we do better at a lower cost and time to market ? The embedded system business is not different and also faces this challenge. As published in this article :
“As the economic slowdown takes its toll on development budgets, embedded-system designers are turning to FPGA […]
Here is a good article on the subject from Actel…
While the article provides a general overview of variable-speed motor control drive importance in the industry , it also gives some interesting numbers :
“electronic motor control could result in savings of as much as 15% of the total electric power used in the US. This equates to an annual reduction in energy consumption […]
I will be presenting Alizem Home Appliance Motor Control IP at Altera booth at next CES 2009 show held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Alizem and Altera have recently published a white paper (english version, chinese version) regarding FPGA-based Motor Control solutions for Home Appliance space.
See you there!
In a recent article, Altera’s CEO, John Daane, has clearly expressed the idea that FPGA are well positionned to enable “technology which allows people to save energy“.
According to Daane, “66 per cent of the world’s industrial electricity runs motors, but only five per cent use variable speed drivers. FPGAs can be used in most motor […]
The movement has been going on for a few years and it accelerates. From specialized digital signal processing chips mainly used in communication applications, FPGA manufacturers have entered in the embedded system market to compete DSP and MCU chips.
Regarding raw computing performances (and not considering cost and design methodology), it is generally accepted that FPGAs, with their inherent […]