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Honored ContributorI have built several Field Oriented Controllers for induction machines and permanent magnet synchronous machines entirely in VHDL using Altera FPGA over the last then years.
IN short: DSP Builder is somewhat useful, but a little bit over hyped. It tends to be clunky, but useful, particularly for "hardware in the loop" type testing. I have used it many times, and always end up writing native code and running a testbench at the VHDL level. What I've found as a better tool is Aldec's Active HDL link to Simulink, it runs more reliability and is an excellent tool. My suggestion: Build a VHDL or Verilog based design, and create reference vectors in Matlab or Python. Best, James
