{"title":"GUI-Based Laboratory Architecture for Teaching and Research in Digital Control of SMPS","authors":"A. Dolgov, B. Miao, R. Zane, D. Maksimović","doi":"10.1109/COMPEL.2006.305636","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Digital control is a powerful modern design technique and important research topic in power electronics, and it is useful to have a simple but flexible platform for experimentation and education purposes. It is shown that a very powerful and easy to use system that can be utilized to control a very diverse range of devices can be easily implemented by using a graphical user interface (GUI) running on a PC to control an FPGA. The FPGA only needs to run a small, modular communication component to interface with the PC and decode commands to perform direct digital hardware control. Since the user has real-time control of the FPGA via the GUI, it is possible to evaluate design and parameter changes in real-time, without reprogramming the FPGA. This makes the proposed platform an ideal tool for educators and researchers alike","PeriodicalId":210889,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Workshops on Computers in Power Electronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2006 IEEE Workshops on Computers in Power Electronics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL.2006.305636","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Digital control is a powerful modern design technique and important research topic in power electronics, and it is useful to have a simple but flexible platform for experimentation and education purposes. It is shown that a very powerful and easy to use system that can be utilized to control a very diverse range of devices can be easily implemented by using a graphical user interface (GUI) running on a PC to control an FPGA. The FPGA only needs to run a small, modular communication component to interface with the PC and decode commands to perform direct digital hardware control. Since the user has real-time control of the FPGA via the GUI, it is possible to evaluate design and parameter changes in real-time, without reprogramming the FPGA. This makes the proposed platform an ideal tool for educators and researchers alike