A design environment for synthesis of embedded fuzzy controllers on FPGAs

Trabajo presentado al FUZZ celebrado en Barcelona del 18 al 23 de julio de 2010.This paper presents a design environment for the synthesis of embedded fuzzy controllers on FPGAs. It provides a novel implementation technique that allows accelerating the exploration of the design space of fuzzy control modules, as well as a codesign flow that eases their integration into complex control systems and the joint development of hardware and software components. The set of CAD tools supporting this environment includes specific fuzzy logic design tools provided by Xfuzzy, FPGA synthesis and implementation tools from Xilinx, and modeling and simulation facilities from Matlab. As demonstrated by the analyzed design examples, the described development strategy takes advantage of flexibility and ease of configuration offered by the different tools to dramatically speed up the stages of description, synthesis, and functional verification of embedded fuzzy control systems.This work was partially supported by projects FP7-INFSO-ICT-248858 (www.mobydic-project.eu) from the European Community, TEC2008-04920 from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and P08-TIC-03674 from the Andalusian regional Government.Peer Reviewe