What is the best low-cost FPGA for power electronics modulation and control?
The flexibility and power of a FPGA lies in how it is configured. That means virtually any will suffice. In fact, it may be overkill to use FPGA in certain settings where a simpler microcontroller could do the job at lower cost and turnaround time.
Dear Sherif M. Dabour ,
Welcome!
I think there is no FPGA for power electronics specifically. FPGAs are used to implement logic functions and building blocks for reprogrammable and reconfigurable applications. They are designed for low power consumption and high speed such that they work at the lowest possible power supply.
In smart power ICs there is a digital core which is normally lower power circuits.
Then they are interfaced to the switching power circuits by high voltage digital circuits. Such as the 4000 CMOS logic family or special driver circuits.
It is always so that there is a buffer circuits between the low power core and the power switching circuits.
Best wishes
Dear Dr. Dabour,
Your answer depends on the complexity of the control algorithm and the optimality of the VHDL or Verilog design. Similar to MUCs, each FPGA is restricted in terms of clock frequency and hardware capacity. According to my experience, ISE and Vivado from Xilinx generate several reports in which the required number of LUTs and maximum clock frequency are determined based on the synthesized digital hardware of the control algorithm and the selected FPGA. Therefore, the best low-cost FPGA can be chosen using these reports.
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