Teaching digital control of switch mode power supplies

This paper explains the methodology followed to teach the subject ‘Digital control of power converters’. This subject belongs to the research master on ‘Industrial Electronics’ of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The subject is composed of several theoretical lessons plus the development of an actual digital control. For that purpose an ad hoc dc-dc converter has been designed and built. The use of this board together with some software tools seems a very powerful way for the students to learn the concepts from the design to the real world.