REAL-TIME SIMULATION AND ANIMATION OF SUSPENSION CONTROL-SYSTEM USINGTI TMS320C30 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR

Real-Time Simulation and Animation (RTSA) of dynamic control systems h as been shown to significantly enhance the interpretation, understandi ng and evaluation of system response performance. Texas Instruments' T MS320C30 Digital Signal Processor is demonstrated to play a key role i n accelerating the simulation speed and, in turn, increasing the graph ics quality. The main feature of the approach we used to evaluate an a ctive suspension system includes a multi-processor system includes a m ulti-processor hardware structure (a PC and a DSP), software controlle d interprocessor communication and shared memory, and the RTSA techniq ue. These are discussed in the paper. In fact, the configuration outli ned in this paper provides a platform for a high speed computing syste m. It is suitable for real-time applications such as signal processing , dynamic control and estimation, as well as graphical simulation.