A Nuvation Engineering client in the solar power industry needed a mixed-signal control board to operate their DC-AC inverter. The inverter was used on solar farms to generate power for the electrical grid. Nuvation Engineering designed and built the main control board for the inverter.
Design Features:
- Mixed-signal board, DSP firmware development, and FPGA RTL design
- Drives multiple 3-phase IGBT matrices via an 18-ch PWM generator
- Current sensing, acquisition, measurement, conditioning, and DC-AC conversion
- Up to 1000 V and 1000 A DC inputs, 500kW AC output
- Communicates with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system over Modbus protocol
- ADI 6-channel, 12bit ADCs and TI F28335 DSP
- Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA watchdog
- RoHS Compliant
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