Power Electronics Control with System-on-a-Chip-Based Platforms

An emerging trend in power electronics control is the use of controllers based on a system-on-a-chip (SoC). SoCs provide a high-performance computing platform by embedding one or multiple processors and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) on the same chip. This paper reviews SoCs for power electronics control applications, discussing aspects such as task allocations and available hardware and software tools. A design and experimental results of an SoC-based controller are discussed, and some of the SoC-based platforms built by researchers in power electronics control are reviewed.