December 18, 2015 by
Over the last two years ELMG Digital Power CTO, Dr. Hamish Laird, has helped supervise (the now Dr.) Rabia Nazir in the pursuit of her Doctoral studies. Hamish Laird says “The research that Rabia has completed in the area of fractional delays in recursive filters for current control in grid tied inverters gives great control […]
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Migration from MCU or DSP to FPGA for Power Electronics Following on from the first part of this post on migration from MCU or DSP to FPGA for Power Electronics, the question was asked: “…What suggestions do you have to start this migration, both in terms of a cheap evaluation board…” This is a good […]
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The LinkedIn Group Digital Power Electronics Control is now an open group. That means that you can now join and then invite people to join. Latest discussions in the group include how to get from C firmware to HDL and how to represent complex numbers in a DSP. Join now.
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As mentioned in our previous post, sometimes with technology it is often the case that you simply need more power. And so as we are coffee fans we decided that we needed more coffee power and got 6kW of it with a beautiful new machine. UPDATE: The machine is now on its shiny new […]
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FPGAs have very large numbers of pins. Ensuring that these are connected and are not shorted to each other requires electrical test vectors and sensing of shorts. Boundary Scan To run up FPGA PCBAs a great solution is boundary scan using a JTAG connection. This lets you drive or sense, in turn, each and every […]
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In a recent discussion we were asked about the migration path from MCU/DSP to FPGA. “I am probably not alone when I use MCU/DSP devices to implement control algorithms, protection, logic etc to control the power hardware, using code such as ASM, C or C++, but want the advantages of FPGA. What suggestions do you […]
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