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In particular, hardware-in-the-loop approaches are now becoming increasingly&nbsp;&nbsp;popular in the development of control solutions for large and complex systems where full scale testing can be time consuming and\/or expensive to carry out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This innovative project is concerned with the development of a system-on-chip based accelerator for the real time simulation of complex and computationally intensive mathematical models. The main aim is to enable real time control implementation\/testing in a hardware-in-loop environment, but it can&nbsp;&nbsp;also be used to speed up computer simulations in the study and design of complex systems. The design of a multi-core accelerator with six CPUs and two sets of floating point units is implemented on a single medium sized and low cost FPGA (field programmable gate arrays) device and is shown to deliver&nbsp;&nbsp;a far superior computation performance than high performance DSPs or the latest PCs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is funded by UK ORS Award and Tetley &amp; Lipton award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD project, supervisor \u2013 Professor T X Mei The implementation of complex control laws or computationally demanding simulation algorithms for real-time applications often requires the use of high performance processors and sometimes complex multi-processor architectures. 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