Future design trend of FPGA: NI Single-board Rio with omni-directional LabVIEW system

Ni published ni single-board Rio GPIC, with a full range of NI LabVIEW system design tools, not only can significantly reduce the design cost of embedded systems, avoid possible related risks, but also further to the intelligent power grid power conversion system to provide the standard RIO architecture. This product reflects the ongoing commitment of the NI Research and Development department to invest and innovate in design, testing, and large-scale operations for the emerging digital energy conversion system. The new system provides a set of standard analog/digital I/O and 58 DSP cores, all built in FPGA architecture, for the majority of intelligent power grid applications, to meet specific control, I/O, performance and cost requirements, including DC AC, AC DC, DC to DC, AC switch AC converter, etc. Can be used for high elasticity AC transmission system, renewable energy output, power storage, and variable speed drive applications.

The new NI Single-board RIO Universal Conversion Controller (General purpose Inverter Controller,gpic) is designed with innovative embedded system design methods to quickly provide an advanced digital energy conversion system that can be reset on site. High-order graphical system design platform plus standard reconfigurable I/O (RIO) FPGA Architecture control system, can assist enterprises in the internal design system, no need for such as Verilog and VHDL register level language knowledge.

"In fact, NI's programming tools allow engineers to design control strategies at the FPGA level, which is clearly the trend of the future," the US Department of Energy Regenerative Energy Laboratory (national renewable) The energy system integration technology research and development Director Bill Kramer further notes: "Imagine you can write a variety of parallel control strategies, and create a new electrical device design, on the grid after years of installation can also be reset through the hardware function." 」

NI Single-board RIO GPIC functions

Pre-validated and directly-posted embedded systems, with a full range of analog/digital I/O, suitable for rapid dispatch of advanced FPGA Architecture Power Device Control system

A full range of graphical system design team, with high-fidelity power plant loop Simulator, can quickly develop and verify the user defined LabVIEW FPGA control expressions

The DSP core hardware and Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, compared to the general dual-core DSP, the efficiency of each dollar is 40 times times higher, each wafer performance is 24 times times higher, each watt efficiency is 10 times times higher

The embedded MHz PowerPC processor is equipped with a VxWorks real-time operating system to support the Smart Grid network protocol DNP3, IEC 60870-5 and IEC 61850, built-in COMTRADE (IEEE 37.111) data records, and standard 3-phase IEC , EN and IEEE power quality analysis.