This work describes an efficient implementation in terms of computation time and resource
usage in a Field-Programmable System-On-Chip (FPSoC) of a Finite Control Set Model Predictive
Control (FCS-MPC) algorithm. As an example, the FCS-MPC implementation is used for the current
reference tracking of a two-level three-phase power converter. The proposed solution is an enabler
for using both complex control algorithms and digital controllers for high switching frequency
semiconductor technologies. An original HW/SW (hardware and software) system architecture
for an FPSoC is designed to take advantage of a modern operating system, while removing time
uncertainty in real-time software tasks, and exploiting dedicated FPGA fabric for the most complex
computations. In addition, two different architectures for the FPGA-implemented functionality are
proposed and compared in order to study the area-speed trade-off. Experimental results show the
feasibility of the proposed implementation, which achieves a speed hundreds of times faster than the
conventional Digital Signal Processor (DSP)-based control platform.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TEC2016-78430-RFondo Nacional de Investigación de Qatar NPRP 9-310-2-13
