How Much Do You Know About Power Conversion Control?

Use a SPICE circuit simulator to model the converter and controller

Manually code the control algorithm and tune it using a hardware setup

Model and simulate the controller and power converter in a system-level simulator

Conduct frequency-domain analysis of the system and use a Bode plot or root locus to tune controllers

Conduct frequency-domain analysis and tune the cascaded controller independently

Develop an average value–based model of the power electronic system before tuning controllers

Conduct time-domain analysis and tune the controllers at a fixed operating point

Test the real-time execution of controller code before verifying in a hardware prototype

Find and correct errors before potential damage to the power electronics system

Reduce time cost and improve development efficiency

All of the above

Check the dynamic response of a time-varying load

Check the dynamic performance by testing on hardware

Check the dynamic response of a time-varying input voltage

Check the dynamic response of aging components

Develop a model to simulate fault conditions before proceeding to hardware testing

Directly test the power converter under fault conditions or all possible operating ranges

Develop and simulate state and supervisory logic model for fault handling

Create a test harness for fault conditions and supervisory control during simulation

Modeling and simulating the large electrical system before hardware testing

Directly testing on hardware

SPICE simulation

Hand coding and rapid prototyping

Software-in-the-loop (SIL)

Processor-in-the-loop (PIL)

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)

All of the above

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False

Fixed-point design

Small-signal analysis

Space vector modulation

Time-domain analysis

You can avoid hand-coding errors caused by misinterpretation of the algorithms or typographical errors

If you need to make changes to the code, you can verify the impact of changes to algorithms in simulation and re-generate code

You can test your algorithms using simulation for extreme operating and fault conditions and know that the code will behave the same as the algorithm

All of the above