Poster: Conceptual Design for FPGA Based Artifical Intelligence Model for HIL Applications.

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulators play a critical role in the automotive industry by providing extensive testing and validation capabilities for electronic control units (ECUs). One of the main challenges faced by HIL simulators involves the task of constructing a virtual environment that accurately replicate the behavior of the actual system. Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can be useful in generating precise virtual environments for HIL simulations of complex systems. Moreover, minimal latency is essential for establishing a reliable virtual environment. FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) can effectively reduce latency in HIL simulations by providing high-performance computing resources. This paper aims to address these challenge by introducing a machine learning-driven HIL simulator implemented on FPGA. The proposed architecture employs FPGA technology to enhance the computational speed of a temporal convolutional neural network (TCN).