Ensuring Fast Turn-Around Times for a Programmable Digital Power Controller

Abstract:
Programmable digital power controller promise fast turn-around times for new product development and customer change requests. By only changing a few lines of code, the system can behave very differently. This capability is also a liability of a programmable controller: To ensure the actual behavior of the system conforms to the desired behavior, it is necessary to keep the effects of changes under control. This paper shows the influencers of turn-around time when building systems with programmable digital power controllers and highlight approaches from state-of-the-art large scale system development (for example at Google) to realize fast turn-around times.