FPGA-Based Cost-Effective and Resource Optimized Solution of Predictive Direct Current Control for Power Converters

Recent advances in power converter applications with highly demanding control goals require the efficient implementation of superior strategies. However, real-time application such strategies demands high computational that necessitates digital controllers like field programmable gate array (FPGA). The inherent parallelism offered by FPGAs minimizes execution time and exhibits an excellent cost-performance trade-off. In addition, rapid advancements FPGA technology a broad portfolio intellectual property (IP) cores, design tools, robust embedded processors resulted paradigm shift. This article proposes low-cost solution for resource-optimized dynamic, accurate, computationally intensive finite state-predictive direct current (FS-PDCC). challenges implementing complex algorithms converters are discussed detail, is implemented Intel’s non-volatile FPGA-MAX®10. An methodology using state machine (FSM) adopted to achieve time/resource-efficient implementation. parallel pipelined architecture provides better resource utilization speed. experimental results prove efficiency FPGA-based cost-effective solutions offer performance output quality.