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The life of ELMG Digital Power Engineers

Wednesday, May 4th, 2022

This is the life of ELMG Digital Power Engineers working for our global customers. So five years ago I was biking around Berlin after having spent the week with my ELMG Digital Power colleague and our customers and their customers, testing 12MW grid-connected power converters where the control did not yet quite work properly.

This is the Reichstag in the background. It was a beautiful, cool, Berlin day.

Eventually, the power converters worked really well and we eventually did the first commissioning for them when they were installed on the Qatar Metro Rail.

Berlin biking after power converter testing.

To address the issues we changed the software we had written and the FPGA code. This was to ensure that the gate pulses were always absolutely consistently in the right place at the right time. This is the constant challenge of power electronics. At 12MW it is very noticeable when gate pulses aren’t always in the right place.

Berlin biking route. Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenberg Gate and the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden (Holocaust Memorial) on the route.
Berlin’s Holocaust monument.

ELMG Digital Power worked on a large-scale converter project, biked around Berlin on a day off, tested further in Japan, Turin, and Prague, and then commissioned the converters in Doha. As a result, our customer is now the leader in their market segment.

Working for our global customers’ success – this is the life of ELMG Digital Power Engineers.

This is one of many successful ELMG Digital Power Electronics engineering developments.

Contact ELMG for your power converter development.

Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin

FAQ

Do you do small converters?

Yes, all sizes from 100W to 500MW – we work on converters of all sizes. Grid storage, telco, motor drives, aerospace, traction. We do power converters for any application.

Where are your customers? Can you help us?

Arizona, Belgium, California, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, India, Massachusettes, New Zealand, North Carolina, New South Wales, Scotland, South Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Queensland, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Yes, we can help you.

Do you need to wear a bike helmet in Berlin?

No. There is no requirement by law.

What sort of control do you use?

Mostly DSP, Microcontrollers and FPGA. Our favorite microcontrollers/DSPs are Ti ti.com. Our favorite FPGAs are Xilinx xilinx.com.

Do you have any case studies?

Contact us and we’ll provide some.

Contact ELMG for your power converter development.

Do you have any references?

Yes.

ABB

Kraft PowerCon

TNEI

Comsys

How long have you been doing Digital Power Electronics Control?

As ELMG Digital Power Electronics since 2001.

ELMG Digital Power People have been working on digital power electronics control since 1992.

About ELMG Digital Power

ELMG Digital Power provides technology, know-how, and products to control, manipulate and measure electrical power. This means we design and build the best digital controlled power electronic systems and by doing that we change the world.
For the past twenty-five years, we have been working on digitally controlled power converters in

  • motor drives
  • industrial switch mode power supplies
  • reactive power compensation
  • medium voltage system
  • power quality systems
  • motor starters
  • appliances
  • telecom switch-mode power supplies
  • UPS
  • railway converters
  • grid connected energy storage converters

ELMG Digital Power helps our customers become leaders in digital power electronics.

Contact ELMG for your power converter development.

ELMG Digital Power Continues AMD Xilinx Partner Program

Tuesday, April 26th, 2022

We are pleased to announce that ELMG Digital Power continues to be part of the AMD Xilinx Partner Program.

As ELMG Digital Power CTO Dr. Hamish Laird explains

“Being part of the Xilinx Partner Program has always been something that we at ELMG Digital Power are very proud of, grateful for, and happy with as it lets us do amazing things for our customers.”

He continues…

“It is fantastic to have the connection that gives us access to all the great AMD/Xilinx tools such as Vitis, HLS, IP Integrator, and Vivado with all its code templates. The combination of the toolchain and the devices from Spartan, Artix, Virtix, Zynq and UltraScale through to SoMs such as the Kria K26 means that ELMG Digital Power can provide great cost-effective, powerful solutions for our customers.”

Constant professional development and training for ELMG Digital Power people allow us to use the best solution for our digital power electronics control platforms.

Dr. Laird again ” We are very grateful and humbled to be part of the Xilinx Partner program. We deliver the best power electronics controllers using this technology”

About AMD Xilinx

Xilinx is now part of AMD. AMD now has the industry’s broadest product portfolio and a highly complementary set of technologies, reaching customers in a diverse set of markets. Together, AMD and Xilinx leverage the right engine for the right workload to address the compute needs of our customers.

www.xilinx.com

About ELMG Digital Power

ELMG Digital Power provides technology, know-how, and products to control, manipulate and measure electrical power. We design and build the best digital controlled power electronic systems and by doing that we change the world.


For the past twenty-five years, we have been working on digitally controlled power converters in motor drives, industrial switch mode power supplies, reactive power compensation, medium voltage system, power quality systems, motor starters, appliances, energy storage converters, UPS, and telecom switch-mode power supplies.

ELMG Digital Power helps our customers become leaders in digital power electronics.