August 29, 2015 by
This demonstration of a simple car dash on 7z010 Zynq SoC from Xilinx implements an touch screen automotive car dash cluster with speedometer and rev counter. The hardware target is the Avnet MicroZed which is mounted on a carrier board. The LCD is a seven inch touch display. We put this together using the […]
Read the full articleJuly 17, 2015 by
ELMG Digital Power are pleased to announce that we have been accepted as a member in the Xilinx Alliance Program. ELMG Digital Power have been using Xilinx FPGAs in digital power converter control, automotive and wired and fiber optic communication since 2009. Dr. Hamish Laird, ELMG Digital Power CTO, previously used Xilinx FPGAs for power […]
Read the full articleJune 11, 2015 by
PCIM is the show where the large power electronics industry comes together to celebrate and show off. Three big trends at PCIM in May 2015 are off the shelf IGBT stacks, mature inductors and intelligent IGBT power stacks. No off the shelf controllers for these stacks were […]
Read the full articleApril 8, 2015 by
Partitioning is critical to product development. And even more critical is partitioning digital power development where the team’s skills required do not fit into the traditional hardware software split. This post was originally published in 2010. It is re-run here as part of the ELMG Redux series. Developments run smoothly Ever […]
Read the full articleFebruary 25, 2015 by
We have started a group where we can share questions and discuss Digital Power Electronics Control on LinkedIn. The group’s name is Digital Power Electronics Control. The link to the group is https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=6677852. Look out for the group identified with the z-transform image like that shown above. Recent Group Discussions Recent discussions have included one on […]
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This article was originally published in 2009. It is part of the ELMG redux series of articles that will be republished over the summer. Some additional material has been added. These articles cover subjects in and around digital control of power electronics. “A room without a book is like a body without a soul.” Gilbert Keith […]
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