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Entries for October, 2008

IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics - Special Issue on FPGA in Industrial Control Systems

Oct.27, 2008 in General Leave a Comment

The famous IEEE journal on Industrial Electronics decided to relase a special issue in August 2007 on the subject of FPGA in industrial control systems. This issue presents 12 different articles describing different aspects of FPGA-based system design for this type of applications: from design of PID controllers, current controller design to fuzzy controllers design.
One great article from […]

FPGA-based Motor Control Design - A new era has come in power electronics

Oct.20, 2008 in Technology, Markets, Power Electronics, Applications, General Leave a Comment

The movement has been going on for a few years and it accelerates. From specialized digital signal processing chips mainly used in communication applications, FPGA manufacturers have entered in the embedded system market to compete DSP and MCU chips.
Regarding raw computing performances (and not considering cost and design methodology), it is generally accepted that FPGAs, with their inherent […]