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Efficient Prototyping of a Field-Programmable Gate Array-Based Real-Time Model of a Modular Multilevel Converter

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  • Wenming Gong

    (The Key Laboratory of HVDC, Electric Power Research Institute China Southern Grid, Guangzhou 510663, China)

  • Chaofan Liu

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China)

  • Mingdong Wang

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China)

  • Xiaobing Zhao

    (The Key Laboratory of HVDC, Electric Power Research Institute China Southern Grid, Guangzhou 510663, China)

Abstract

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based real-time simulation plays a crucial role in testing power–electronic dominated systems with the formation of controller hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) or power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL). This work describes an efficient implementation of computation time and resource usage in the FPGA-based study of a modular multilevel converter (MMC) with detailed electromagnetic transients. The proposed modeling technique can be used in continuous control mode (CCM) and discontinuous control mode (DCM) for high-switching frequency semiconductor technologies. An FPGA-based designed solver structure is also presented to take advantage of the parallel features of FPGAs to achieve an ultra-fast calculation speed. In addition, two different switch modeling techniques are discussed with a five-level MMC case study. Experimental results on the NI PXIe platform show the feasibility of the proposed implementation, and a time step of 100 nanoseconds is achieved.

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  • Wenming Gong & Chaofan Liu & Mingdong Wang & Xiaobing Zhao, 2024. "Efficient Prototyping of a Field-Programmable Gate Array-Based Real-Time Model of a Modular Multilevel Converter," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(3), pages 1-15, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:17:y:2024:i:3:p:591-:d:1326762
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