Active harmonic elimination for multilevel converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 459-469

  Du, Zhong ^b   Tolbert, Leon M ^a   Chiasson, John N ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Active harmonic elimination; Field programmable gate array (FPGA) controller; Multilevel converter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY CONTROLLER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 33644930252     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2005.869757     Document Type: Article

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