Track: Energy
Abstract
DHS stands for Domestic Heating System. An algorithm for a low cost DHS was proposed and implemented using microcontrollers as part of an earlier research. This research presents the implementation of an efficient algorithm using the Artix-7 development board. Aritix-7 is one of the latest families of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) by Xilinx. Devices in this family feature up to 500 I/O pins, more than 200 logic cells, and more than 700 DSP slices. Components of the DHS were implemented in VHDL, synthesized, simulated and tested using the Xilinx IDE. Important results have been reported and discussed. Suggestions for future work are also given as part of this paper.