A modular signal processing platform for grid and motor control, HIL and PHIL applications

In this paper a highly performant modular and fully adaptable real-time signal processing platform is introduced, which can be used to control all kinds of applications in the field of power electronics and electrical drive control, such as Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) systems, Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) systems and power electronic systems for grid and drive applications. The proposed system was fully developed and built in the ETI, enabling full access to even the last register inside the FPGA and the whole software architecture. Another benefit of the in-house production is, that the costs are very low compared to proprietary system on the market and hence every researcher in the ETI has access to it. With this high-performance real-time signal processing platform, it is possible to push high performance research topics in the field of power electronics and electrical drive control forward.