Products adapted to your Power Electronics needs

Power Electronics is a key enabling technology in the process of electrification and strategic human activities are undergoing a very pronounced electrification process: Energy, Transportation, Communications, Health…

As a result, the requirements for power electronics systems are becoming more and more demanding. Better performance: efficiency, size, weight & cost is needed in the Power Stage and improved intelligence, communications & adaptation to source and load conditions are required in the Control System.

In Power Smart Control we are experts in Power Stage and Digital Control design, and we offer ready-to-use platforms for Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) and Rapid Power Prototyping (RPP).

Our agile engineering team will provide the best solution to meet the customer specifications in a cost-effective way. Customer engagement during project development ensures that the solutions we provide meet our customer’s specifications and expectations.

Innovative ideas in hardware, firmware and software solutions.

SmartRCP

SmartRCP provides a cutting-edge tailor made technological stable and robust platform to explore and validate converter control techniques. It provides the perfect balance of digital processing power and hardware interconnectivity to enable connecting the market most powerful RCP system to the user converter with none or minimal intervention.

Highlights

🔺BASED IN A XILINX KRIA K26 SYSTEM ON CHIP (SoC): seamlessly mounted on a high-tech tailor-made carrier board, with unlimited access to all FPGA resources and six high-end ARM microprocessors available.​

  • Quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A53 MPCore™ up to 1.5GHz.​
  • Dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F MPCore up to 600MHz.​
  • 4GB of DDR4 RAM.​

🔺NOT BLACK BOX APPROACH: SmartRCP system is fully accessible by the user.​

  • Program the FPGA by using HLS or directly in VHDL or Verilog and, at the same time, program the four available high-specs ARM microprocessors.​
  • Detailed templates, tutorials and demo boards (buck converter) to get started.​

🔺FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES AND APPLICATIONS:

  • General and specific control algorithmic validation.​
  • Power converter validation (Firmware departments for debugging and testing)​
  • Control algorithmic pre-certification (under multiple scenarios, like grid deeps).​
  • Finite State Machine (FSM) testing.​
  • Digital Twin (DT) and Real Time Simulators (RTS) systems.

Key features

   PWM modulation features are fully controlled as they are defined in C or VHDL.
   The code validated by RCP can be exported directly into the real Control Unit.
   Remote Controlling capabilities.
   Embedded oscilloscope & datalogger and advanced post-processing tools.
   In deep documentation and application examples provided
   PSC Engineering & Consulting services available upon request.
   Suitable for distributed control techniques.


What does SmartRCP includes?
🔺SmartRCP device
🔺Hardware drivers for all board peripherals fully compiled as an IP core (ready to use)
🔺All Vivado and Vitis configuration (ready to use)
🔺Test mode program (ready to use)
🔺User Manual
🔺Universal power adapter
🔺Embedded waveform viewer. Now included!
🔺Synchronous Buck Converter template and Demo Board (plug and play). Now included!

Accessories and compatible modules
🔺Collection of IP cores ready to use (currently under development)
🔺Seamless Connection with a 20kW Rapid Power Prototyping (upcoming PSC RPP system)

Detailed connectivity
Analog and Digital Front End:

  • 32 · Digital inputs​ 0-24V (Isolated – sampled at 10kHz)
  • 32 · Digital outputs 0-24V​ (Isolated – updated at 10kHz)
  • 36 · PWM output channels (0-5V – RS422 – Differential – Isolated – sampled at 4ns​)
  • 12 · Fast analog input channels​ (0-5V – 12bits – 3Ms/s) 
  • 12 · Slow input analog channels (0-5V – 12bits – 500ks/s)​
  • 16 · Analog output channels​ (0-5V – 16bits – 500ks/s)

High-speed serial connectivity: 

  • 1 · Ethernet (1GB – RJ45)
  • 4 · USB 2.0​
  • 2 · ETH RJ45 to parallel converters or distributed controlling

Industrial connectivity: 

  • 2 · UART (USB converted)
  • 2 · RS485 (Full/Half duplex)
  • 1 · MicroSD card

Additional features: 

  • 1 · Programming and debugging microUSB
  • 1 · Reset button
  • Power requirements (24V – 60W max)C

PWM Channel chains details
🔺PWM channels are fully electrically isolated.
🔺To reduce noise susceptibility, a differential RS-422 protocol is used all connectors are shielded.
🔺Additional enable and status/error signals are provided to interface driving circuitry.

Analog input chains details
🔺All input analog channels share analog chain topology and input spam of 0-5V.
🔺Antialiasing filters are tuned at 1,5MHz for fast channels and 200kHz for slow channels.
🔺Analog front end provides a differential input with selectable input impedance, low input current and high bandwidth.

SmartRPP

Versatile and Flexible Power Converter​ for rapid HW prototyping and validation.

🔺Configurable: can be used as two half-bridges or one full bridge.
🔺Up to 20 kW output power.
🔺Switching frequency up to 500 kHz.
🔺Multiple topologies implementation: Buck, Boost, Four Switch Buck-Boost, Dual Active Bridge, Resonant topologies, etc.
🔺Can achieve 0% or 100% duty cycle in both half bridges.
🔺Based on SiC MOSFET technology.
🔺Forced convection cooled.
🔺Simplified interface between Rapid HW Prototyping and control board

Coming soon!


The Versatile and Flexible Power Converter
 
is based on a modular system, consisting of a main frame including the power stage, two driver boards and several isolated voltage and current sensors.​

Parameter​Value​
POWER MODULE​​
Maximum DC voltage​​500 V​​
Maximum leg current​80 A​​
Maximum switching frequency​​500 kHz​​
Maximum Output Power​​20 kW​
DRIVER BOARD​
Peak current​32 A​
ISOLATED VOLTAGE SENSOR​
Sensitivity​3.388 mV/V​​
Rating​0 - 600 V​
Bandwidth​275 kHz​
ISOLATED CURRENT SENSOR​
Sensitivity​13.2 mV/A​​
Rating​​±100 A​​
Bandwidth​​200 kHz​​