January 30, 2024 by
It is hard to say exactly what is the most important thing in Digital Control of Power Electronics. There are lots of things to know. Some that are important are And then there are other fundamental software type things But the most fundamental thing to know is how to deal with the non-linearity that digital […]
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It is an interesting question – how many effective bits do you have for a PWM output? And how do you work it out? I sometimes run a webinar about this and I go through the number of bits that you effectively get out of the PWM. It turns out that it is the maximum […]
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Recently we ported our Zynq SoC based digital power controller onto a new SoM (System on a Module). A SoC is a System on a Chip. The new SoM is from Enclustra who typically do good work. There SoMs are great but typically not the least expensive. Probably with SoMs you do get what you […]
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Recently this was posted in a C for Embedded programming Linkedin group. Attention C programmers!Here’s a quick trick that can make your code more efficient and save you time. Did you know that you can use the ternary operator to simplify if-else statements? For example, instead of writing: if(x > 0){y = 1;}else{y = 0;} […]
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I was traveling before Christmas to get to a couple of meetings. A software guy in one of the meetings had to step out because there was a pressing issue with a serial communications system. He was back in about 20 minutes because he had “fixed it”. Turns out an IDE/Compiler/ToolChain code library had been […]
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The thorn in the side of the supercapacitor is its limited lifetime. Supercapacitors can do many things in the field of energy storage and have be touted as being the future batteries. However any supercapacitor if not lifetime-engineered properly can fail prematurely. This leaves your company with potentially large warranty costs. What is lifetime? Supercapacitor […]
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