Design and analysis of FPGA-based control of a fuel cell line converter

Author

Riipinen, T. ; Laakkonen, O. ; Lehonkoski, L. ; Väisänen, V. ; Silventoinen, P. ; Pyrhönen, O.

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

363

Lastpage

366

Abstract

Direct voltage can be converted to alternating voltage (and vice versa) with an inverter. The control of the inverter is based on the control of power switches and the usage of a suitable modulation method. The control of the inverter is proposed to be done in an FPGA circuit that allows quick parallel calculation. Because of the architecture of the FPGA circuits, the sufficient byte length of the fixed-point notation has to be taken into account. The statistical characteristics and histogram of the difference are examined between a fixed-point VHDL model and a floating-point system.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; fixed point arithmetic; floating point arithmetic; fuel cells; hardware description languages; invertors; statistical analysis; FPGA circuit; FPGA-based control; fixed-point VHDL model; floating-point system; fuel cell line converter; inverter control; power switches control; statistical characteristics; Circuits; Control systems; Electric variables control; Equations; Field programmable gate arrays; Fuel cells; Inductors; Inverters; Voltage control; Water heating; FPGA; Inverter; VHDL; control; discretization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2009. IECON '09. 35th Annual Conference of IEEE

Conference_Location

Porto

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4648-3

Electronic_ISBN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2009.5414949

Filename

5414949