Software defined digital power conversion in medium to low power AC/DC SMPS applications
Conference: PCIM Europe 2015 - International Exhibition and Conference for Power Electronics, Intelligent Motion, Renewable Energy and Energy Management
05/19/2015 - 05/20/2015 at Nürnberg, Deutschland
Proceedings: PCIM Europe 2015
Pages: 8Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Fahlenkamp, Marc (Infineon Technologies AG, Germany)
Abstract:
Software defined power ICs are today mainly seen in high performance SMPS applications. For the medium to low power AC/DC applications they are often considered oversized and usually need additional external peripheral components like high-voltage driver ICs, signal pre-processing, LDOs or a high voltage startup cell. The innovation described in this paper is now to provide a core based HW architecture that supports the right flexibility for system innovations and reduction of the necessary external amount of components to the possible minimum by means of a specific partitioning for the HW and FW functions.