Electronic Design

Controller Design for DCM-Operated Boost Converter Using System Identification

Power electronics converters require negative feedback to provide a suitable output voltage or current for the load. Obtaining a stable output voltage or current in presence of disturbances like input ...
EDN

Teaching Your PI Controller to Behave (Part VIII)

We are now on the eight part of a ten part series about teaching your PI controller to behave like you want it to. At the heart of this discussion is a proposed tuning technique which allows you to be ...
Electronic Design

Using Raspberry Pi in Production Process Controllers

Platforms like Raspberry Pi are great for prototyping, but what do you do when you want to take the product to production? Coming up with a custom design is one approach. However, a more flexible ...
EDN

Teaching Your PI Controller to Behave (Part IX)

At last! Let’s take what we have learned so far and see how it applies to Field Oriented Control (FOC) systems. Figure 1 shows a typical field oriented system incorporating TI’s new FAST sensorless ...