Educational hardware/software interface for power electronic applications

Following the increasing interest on sector of the energy generation distribution and control, the design of friendly user tools for power electronics applications is a hot topic among the researchers all over the world. In fact, the digital signal processors programming is a hard task which requires a deep knowledge of the specific hardware platform where the user control program is implemented. In this paper, an educational hardware/software interface for power electronic applications is presented. In this setup, a digital signal processor (DSP) is programmed to control a power converter. The proposed platform is currently used as a useful tool to understand how the DSP is programmed, to control a power converter safely and to monitor all the interesting variables of the power converter operation.