Multifunctional controller architecture for sold-state marx modulator based on FPGA

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Fernando
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Luís, SANTOS REDONDO, LUIS MANUEL
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/4883
• topic: Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA); Graphical User Interfaces; Marx Generator; Pulsed Power Converter

This paper proposes a multifunctional architecture to implement field-programmable gate array (FPGA) controllers for power converters and presents a prototype for a pulsed power generator based on a solid-state Marx topology. The massively parallel nature of reconfigurable hardware platforms provides very high processing power and fast response times allowing the implementation of many subsystems in the same device. The prototype includes the controller, a failure detection system, an interface with a safety/emergency subsystem, a graphical user interface, and a virtual oscilloscope to visualize the generated pulse waveforms, using a single FPGA. The proposed architecture employs a modular design that can be easily adapted to other power converter topologies.