April 19, 2016 by
APEC 2016 at Long Beach, California In March Dr Hamish Laird presented the High Performance Digital Control professional education seminar at this year’s Applied Power Electronics Conference in Long Beach California. Attendance at the seminar was high, with more than four hundred people coming to hear Dr. Laird speak. The large number of attendees asking questions […]
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Keith Armstrong is coming back to New Zealand and Australia to give EMC and safety training in 2016. EMC Training 2016 Keith Armstrong is a well known author and expert in cost-effective EMC and safety management and design. He is a practicing EMC/Compliance engineer and Chairman of IEE/IET Working Group on EMC and Functional Safety. […]
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The US Congress looks to have agreed that the ITC tax credit for solar installations in the USA will be extended passed 31st December 2016. While nothing is ever certain in politics or government, the stock markets have run up the stocks of the solar companies showing that there is some confidence that this will […]
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Over the last two years ELMG Digital Power CTO, Dr. Hamish Laird, has helped supervise (the now Dr.) Rabia Nazir in the pursuit of her Doctoral studies. Hamish Laird says “The research that Rabia has completed in the area of fractional delays in recursive filters for current control in grid tied inverters gives great control […]
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Migration from MCU or DSP to FPGA for Power Electronics Following on from the first part of this post on migration from MCU or DSP to FPGA for Power Electronics, the question was asked: “…What suggestions do you have to start this migration, both in terms of a cheap evaluation board…” This is a good […]
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FPGAs have very large numbers of pins. Ensuring that these are connected and are not shorted to each other requires electrical test vectors and sensing of shorts. Boundary Scan To run up FPGA PCBAs a great solution is boundary scan using a JTAG connection. This lets you drive or sense, in turn, each and every […]
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