DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SOFT RECONFIGURABLE POWER ELECTRONIC CONTROL PROCESSOR

This paper proposesto build a soft, platform independent, reconfigurable power electronic control processor in HDL. Currently power electronic control processors are designed with digital signal processors/microcontrollers with limited re-configurability and input-output capabilities, also DSP/microcontrollers suffer processor obsolescence risk. This can be reduced with the use of a reconfigurable control processor design in HDL and implemented on FPGA. Currently FPGA are used along with DSP for glue logic purpose and input-output expansion. So it is economical to use a single FPGA along with a soft core CPU and control modules as hardware accelerators.Some of the soft coresavailableare licensed and are targetedto a particular FPGA, so a32 bit soft,reconfigurablepower electronic control processor is developed from scratch