FPGA implementation of the power electronic converter model for real-time simulation of electromagnetic transients

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 852-860

  Matar, Mahmoud ^a   Iravani, Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic transients; Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Modeling; Power electronics; Real time simulation

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION TIME; CIRCUIT MODELS; CORRECTIVE MEASURES; ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TRANSIENT; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; HARD-WARE-IN-THE-LOOP; IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY; MODELING POWER; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; REAL-TIME POWER SYSTEM; SALIENT FEATURES; SIMULATION RESULT; SIMULATION TIME; SYSTEM SIZE; TIME STEP;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); LOGIC GATES; POWER ELECTRONICS; SCALABILITY; SIMULATORS; TRANSIENTS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950189696     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2033603     Document Type: Article

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