A Simulink-Based Design Tool for Mapping Guidance Algorithms into Field Programmable Gate Arrays

This document proposes a 6-month Phase I effort to demonstrate the feasibility of a direct-programming tool for missile guidance algorithms. This tool will be an expansion of the currently supported product called the BEEcube Platform Studio (BPS), which is itself built upon the Mathworks Simulink framework and Xilinx System Generator for DSP. This expansion will be three-fold: first, to permit the support of multiple FPGA vendors, second, to support function kernels targeted for guidance algorithms, and third, to predict power and thermal load capacity of the system