Teaching digital control of switch mode power supplies

This paper explains the methodology followed to teach the subject `Digital control of power converters´. This subject belongs to the research master on `Industrial Electronics´ of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The subject is composed of several theoretical lessons plus the development of an actual digital control. For that purpose an ad hoc dc-dc converter has been designed and built. The use of this board together with some software tools seems a very powerful way for the students to learn the concepts from the design to the real world.