3. Digital hardware solutions

In addition to digital software solutions, digital hardware solutions such as FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) or ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) are also commonly used to implement control algorithms for power electronics converters. There are several manufacturers of digital hardware solutions, including Actel/Microsemi, Xilinx and Altera. In prototyping operations, FPGA-based digital hardware solutions are the most widely used, given their reprogrammability. However, the cost of producing them for large production runs is prohibitive. In this case, cost-effectiveness is ensured by the use of ASICs, where the architecture developed on FPGAs is transferred via a hardware copy (figure 7 ). In what follows, we will focus on FPGA-based digital solutions, since the design and testing of control...