Archive for the ‘Training’ Category

Xilinx Alliance Program Engineer Re-Certification 2020

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020

ELMG Digital Power Engineers and the Xilinx Alliance Program

ELMG Digital Power Engineers and the Xilinx Alliance Program form an ongoing, valuable, and extremely productive partnership.

When asked about this ELMG Digital Power CTO,  Dr. Laird said

“Maintaining ELMG Digital Power’s commitment to providing exceptional service and products is our key uniqueness. To this end we are pleased to continue in the Xilinx Alliance Program membership.  We see great things happening with Xilinx All Programmable FPGAs and Zynq SoCs, UltraScale devices and the Spartan7.

It is great to see the capability of the Xilinx tools like Vitis and the Vivado Suite continue to allow exceptionally fast, reliable and robust development flows.  We are really pleased to support engineers to maintain competance and capability with Xilinx tools and devices.”

ELMG Digital Power Engineers and the Xilinx Alliance Program

Continuing Training with Xilinx Tools and Devices at ELMG Digital Power

Dr Laird continues

“As always this training opportunity let’s me stay capable and able to create Xilinx based power electronics controllers. Learning about the new improved HLS and Vitis tools is an invaluable capability to offer ELMG Digital Power Customers.”

Contact ELMGDigitalPower now.

ELMG Digital Power and the Xilinx Alliance Program

Xilinx Alliance Member ELMG Digital Power

About the Xilinx Partner Program

The Xilinx Partner Program is a worldwide ecosystem of qualified companies who offer Acceleration solutions, IP cores, Design Services, and Board development and production. Ecosystem Partners help system designers in the rapid integration of Xilinx FPGAs, SoCs, 3DICs, intellectual property, and software-defined solutions. They offer proven products and expert design support from chip level to full turnkey product development, which accelerate time to production of complex electronic systems.

ELMG Xilinx Alliance Partner Listing

Xilinx Alliance Program Re-Certification

Thursday, July 4th, 2019

ELMG Digital Power and the Xilinx Alliance Program

ELMG Digital Power and the Xilinx Alliance Program is an ongoing, valuable and extremely valuable partnership.

When asked about this ELMG Digital Power CTO,  Dr. Laird said

“Maintaining ELMG Digital Power’s commitment to providing exceptional service and products is our key uniqueness. To this end we are pleased to continue in the Xilinx Alliance Program membership.  We see great things happening with Xilinx All Programmable FPGAs and Zynq SoCs, UltraScale devices and the Spartan7.

It is great to see the capability of the Vivado Suite continue to allow exceptionally fast, reliable and robust development flows.  We are really pleased to continue with ELMG Digital Power’s Xilinx Alliance Program commitment and are please to be part of the Xilinx community.”

ELMG Digital Power and the Xilinx Alliance Program

Certification for ELMG Digital Power CTO, Dr Hamish Laird

Dr Laird continues

“For me this training let’s me stay capable and able to create Xilinx based power electronics controllers. Xilinx products are great and the support and capability we can provide to customers is amazing.”

Contact ELMGDigitalPower now.

ELMG Digital Power and the Xilinx Alliance Program

Xilinx Alliance Member ELMG Digital Power

Is there a student discount for the Digital Power Electronics Control Course?

Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

Is there a student discount for the Digital Power Electronics Control Course?

In short the answer is no.

That said graduate students can benefit immensely from the course.

In the past students have attended and one of the students asked Dr.Laird to help with supervision in her PhD project on partial step filters for grid connected power converters. Dr Laird helped until her graduation in 2017.

The intention of the course is to provide industry training and to enable industry people.  This means these attendees are the priority.

Register for the course here

 

 

Xilinx Alliance Program Re-Certification

Monday, April 23rd, 2018

Xilinx Alliance Program Re-Certification

ELMG Digital Power are continuing in the Xilinx Alliance Program.

After meeting the requirement to have Xilinx certified engineers we successfully completed the application for the program.

When asked about this Dr Laird said

“As part of ELMG Digital Power’s continuing commitment to providing fantastic service and products we are privileged in continuing our Xilinx Alliance Program membership.   We see great things happening with Xilinx All Programmable FPGAs and Zynq SoCs.  It was great to see the capability of the SDSoC tools and to see the progress and extension of the Vivado Suite.  We are really pleased to continue our Xilinx Alliance Program commitment and are please to be part of the Xilinx community.”

Xilinx Alliance Program Re-Certification

Xilinx Certification

Dr Laird continues

“We are very pleased and proud of our Xilinx Alliance Program membership and for the value that it lets us bring to our customers.   Training for key people in our organization is essential for us to continue to help our customers with FPGA and other All Programmable solutions.  Our IP blocks, power electronics know how and ability to deliver solutions are our key areas of focus.”

Contact ELMGDigitalPower now.

 

Free Webinar December 22 Digital Power Electronics Control

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Thursday December 22 at 11am California time (2pm Eastern) ELMG Digital Power are offering you the opportunity to learn about the Digital Power Electronics Control.

Digital Power Electronics Control

Join ELMG Digital Power’s regular Digital Power Webinar and expand your knowledge and expertise by discovering:

  • What is important in digital power, including numeric precision and latency
  • How to design a compensator in the digital domain

Presenter

The webinar will be hosted and presented by Dr. Hamish Laird.  Hamish is  ELMG Digital Power’s CTO.  He also presents and teaches the Digital Control of Power Electronics course. Hamish has twenty five years of experience the design and implementation of varied digital control systems and IP for power electronics.

Dr. Hamish Laird at the ELMG Camarillo Office

Dr. Hamish Laird presenting the August 2016 Training course

Free

This exciting opportunity is free and includes a thirty minute Q&A session with Dr. Hamish.

The webinar is Thursday December 22 at 11am California time (2pm Eastern).

https://info.elmgdigitalpower.com/digital_power_dec2016

 

On the course do you address the issues that occur in digital control teams between software engineers and power electronics hardware engineers

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016

How do hardware and software engineers talk to each other?

This is the extract from a recent conversation on LinkedIn between power electronics engineers of all different flavors.  It sums up beautifully the issues between hardware and software engineers in digital power electronics control developments. (Names shortened to protect the innocent.)

D. H.

‘Y. & A., I have no idea what half of the acronyms are which you (software) guys are using but, I get the feeling from A.  that optimized C (whatever that is) is slower for a multiplication than assembly. Y. seems to be saying that a particular version of C he likes creates a faster multiplication.
So, I’m just left confused. Which is it?
I’m from the 80’s. This is when a multiply was a simple, understandable add-shift, add-shift,….repeat 8 times and you’re done. Many modern processors have one command – MUL AxB. Nowadays, digital guys are telling me that this method is so complicated. Why? Why is a simple multiply so complicated now when 30 yrs ago it was routine and easy to understand?’

Hamish from ELMG Digital Power

‘D. H. – there is a really big disconnect between the software able guys like Y. and the non software able guys ( I am guessing you – sorry if I am wrong). It is often that sort of cultural mis-alignment that causes lots of issues in the development. We fix the cultural alignment for companies sometimes. And its a process and there isn’t really an easy road and, I hate to say it, some teams go under doing it. We created our digital training course as the result of a customer R and D manager asking us when we were in the middle of a fix up “How could we have avoided this?” ‘

D. H.

‘Hamish, You’re right about the cultural mismatch. (Yes, I’m not a software guy). My post a few days back concerned a software guy who had trouble communicating to me why his code was lengthy and complex, and I had trouble communicating with him as to why my view of a simple look-up table isn’t valid anymore. Maybe D. E. was correct, a “good” programmer should know how to deal with math.
Are these type of issues going to be addressed in your course?’

Hamish 

‘D. H. – In short yes. The slightly longer answer is. In the course we cover this culture issue both explicitly and implicitly. Team culture structure and organisation for digital power controllers are really important to success. And even more critical to sustained success when the “fix up” consultant has left the building. How we address this group culture issue in the course is by showing the attendees how to setup the conversation and documents so that the different types of people all can understand and contribute. Understanding and empathizing with the software engineers ethos, and what he values, is key to the power electronics converter engineer being able to do her job. And likewise. Engineers are technical people – which often speaks for itself in team dynamics. In the course we cover how matching the system partition to the team partition and to the system documents gives you a really good shot at success.’

Y.

‘D. H.  , It is a known problem where software get hard time from hardware and vice versa ,many project fell because of this issue
I solved this problem long time ago when I decided to learn software (computer science ) after a good career as a hardware designer and since then all the hardware and software issue solve internally :-)’

Hamish from ELMG Digital Power

‘Y. is right that you can just learn it all; hardware, software and control. The problem comes when you leave the job and the team have to do it without you. Super engineers are great until they leave the team. And not every company can employ one and most companies prefer a team to manage this risk.’

Come to the course in Camarillo, California,  August 22 through 24 and we’ll show you a good approach to dealing with this cultural mismatch.

Register here