A GENERIC APPROACH TO PARALLELIZING AND DEVELOPING CONTROL ALGORITHMSFOR HETEROGENEOUS ARCHITECTURES

System developers have found that exploiting parallel architectures fo r control systems is challenging and often the resulting implementatio ns do not provide the expected performance advantages over traditional uniprocessor solutions. This paper presents a generic method and a su ite of design tools for the implementation of control algorithms on pa rallel architectures. These tools allow a developer to translate a con trol system algorithm into efficient executable code, via a highly aut omated route, for a class of advanced parallel architectures. The tool s are demonstrated and discussed by developing several case-study algo rithms to full implementations with an emphasis on the problematic are as leading to performance degradation common to parallel systems.