Control Circuits in Power Electronics: Practical Issues in Design and Implementation [Book News]

This book discloses discloses some engineering solutions that usually have no place to be published in papers about control of power electronics converters. Although it is assumed that a skilled engineer can figure out how to implement a published modulator and nonlinear controller, often, the obtained solution is not optimal and takes valuable time. This book presents state-of-the-art techniques to implement modulation schemes, control algorithms, and gate drivers using analog circuits, digital microprocessors, or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The book’s first part covers analog control circuits and converters where analog control circuitry presents higher performance. The second part, “Digital Control Circuits,” includes quantization effects and limit cycles, controller implementation, digital PWM, microcontroller-based electronic ballasts, and FPGAs with sliding-mode direct control applied to unity power factor boost rectifiers (UPFRs). The third part, “New Trends in Control Circuits for Power Electronics,” starts with intelligent gate drivers, design and control of switched capacitor (charge pumps), and DSP natural frame and sliding-mode control of UPFRs at fixed switching frequency. The last chapters are dedicated to the application of dual-core DSPs in the control of grid-forming converters to microgrids and the usage of computational intelligence (fitness functions, genetic algorithms, and ant colony optimization) to optimize power converters.