1. Cellular Automata Project:
FPGA Implementation
of Beam Analysis

2. Cellular Automata Model Single Cell per PE
Each Processing Element (PE) Calculates its Value Based on its Adjacent Neighbors

3. Cellular Automata Model Multiple Cells per PE
Each Processing Element Calculates the Value of Multiple Cells

4. Beam Model Calculates displacement and rotation of each cell
Cells can have fixed displacement, rotation, or both
External forces and/or moments can be applied

5. Processing Element Design

6. Number of Cells vs. Maximum Frequency

7. Number of Cells vs. FPGA Utilization

8. Number of Cells vs. Million Operations Per Second

9. Number of Cells vs. Million Cell Updates Per Second

10. C Simulation Results
Based on timing of optimized C simulation running on CCM1 (1.4GHz, 1GB RAM)
Simulator ran 1M iterations of a 5448 cell beam model in 111.4s
Million Cell Updates per Second: 48.9