High Speed Reconfigurable Power Electronics Controller
A reconfigurable controller architecture (on FPGA) that can replace the conventional embedded micro controller/ Digital Signal Processor based controller design for real time control and monitoring of Power Electronic (PE) system. Technology developed by CDAC (T), Sponsored under NaMPET.
Advantages
- Reconfigurable hardware for various PE applications
- Reduced processor obsolescence risk
- FPGA independent design
- Faster performance
- Faster concept to system design
- Generic board design handles a variety of PE applications
Use Cases
As a Digital Controller for
- Solar MPPT Applications
- High Frequency Inverter
- High Performance AC Drive
- DC Drive
- UPS
- DC-DC Converters
- Multi-level Inverters
- Interleaved DC-DC Converters
- Cyclo Converters
- Matrix Converters
- Smart metering
- Power Factor Correction (PFC)
- Power Quality Applications
- Controller with Custom/standard Communication Protocol
Salient Features
- Soft processor integrated reconfigurable PE Controller
- Application dependent processor design
- An exclusive Power Electronics specific IPs Library (PWM generator, PI, ADC, DAC Controller, SPI, UART etc)
- Custom made instructions/functions for PE IP Library
- Explores the idea of Hardware parallel processing than software pipelining
- Reduced software/coding overhead
Technical Specifications
- CONTROLLER CARD: Fixed design hardware for variety of PE control applications
- FPGA : Cyclone III EP3C25E144C8N (24,624 LEs)
- On chip Memory : 64 kBytes (inside FPGA)
- Flash memory : 2 MB
- Digital I/Os : 55 Nos. (3.3-V LVTTL)
- Host Interface : JTAG
- Supply voltage : 3.3 V
- INTERFACE CARD: Interface Card interfaces the controller to the Power Electronic systems
- Analog Input : +10V (ADC 13 bit 8 Channel, SPI interface)
- Analog Output : +3.3V (DAC 12 bit 8 channel, SPI interface)
- Digital Input : +5 V 2 Nos.
- Digital Output : +5 V 12 Nos.
- Supply voltage : 12 V
Contact Details for Techno Commercial Information
Technology Transfer Centre (TTC),
Power Electronics Group
C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram
Tel: +91-471-2723333, 2723226
Fax: +91-471-2722230, 2723456
email: peg@cdac.in,tpc@cdac.in
Website: www.nampet.in