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Digital Control in Switched Mode Power Converters and FPGA-based Prototyping

By Prof. Santanu Kapat   |   IIT Kharagpur
Learners enrolled: 1321
ABOUT THE COURSE:
Leading power electronics and power management industries are aggressively exploring digital control solutions for their mainstream product lines in the near future to meet ever increasing demands of performance, efficiency, safety, EMI, hot swapping, scalability, modularity, adaptability, compatibility with smart digital communication . This course will be the first one in NPTEL to cover Digital Control and FPGA-based Implementation for Switched Mode Power Converters, which is aimed to develop skilled manpower and to facilitate academic as well as corporate research and development. This course will benefit industry practitioners, students and teachers from AICTE approved colleges to know about latest digital control trends in power electronics industries. , particularly to understand (i) benefits of digital control, (ii) modulation and digital control architectures, (iii) MATLAB and SIMPLIS simulation, (iv) modelling and analysis techniques, (v) design and tuning methods, (vi) embedded control implementation platforms, (vii) Verilog HDL and fixed point implementation, (viii) hardware development and FPGA-based prototyping, (ix) reference design with case studies and practical demonstration.
 
INTENDED AUDIENCE: M.Tech, Ph.D. as well as final year B.Tech students from AICTE approved institutes, design engineers from power management and power electronics industries, such as STMicroelectron ics, Qualcomm, Tl, NXP, GE, HCL Technology, Mahindra, etc.

PREREQUISITES: Qualification (i) BE/B.Tech in Electrical/Electronics Engg. (degree completed or final year UG students) or (ii) PG M.Tech in Power Electronics or Power Systems (degree enrolled or completed) or (iii) one year or more experience in power electronics or power  management converters

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: STMicroeletronics, Qualcomm , Texas Instruments , NXP, Mahindra Electric, GE, HCL Technology, Microchip Technology
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Elective
Language for course content :
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 25 Jul 2022
End Date : 14 Oct 2022
Enrollment Ends : 08 Aug 2022
Exam Date : 30 Oct 2022 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1:  Introduction to digital control in switched mode power converters (SMPCs)
Week 2:  Fixed and variable frequency digital control architectures
Week 3: MATLAB custom model development for simulation under digital control
Week 4: Modeling techniques and model validation using MATLAB
Week 5: Frequency and time domain digital control design approaches
Week 6: Digital control implementation blocks and steps for FPGA based prototyping
Week 7: Introduction to Verilog HDL and simulation using Xilinx Webpack
Week 8: Digital controller implementation using fixed point arithmetic and Verilog HDL
Week 9: Digital Control Implementation using STM32 and C2000 Series Microcontrollers
Week 10: Steps for FPGA prototyping of digital voltage mode and current mode control
Week 11: Design and validation case studies using digital voltage and current mode control
Week 12: Hardware case studies of advanced digital control techniques and course summary

Books and references

  1. S. Kapat and P. T. Krein, ""A Tutorial and Review Discussion of Modulation, Control and Tuning of High­ Performance DC-DC Converters based on Small-Signal and Large-Signal Approaches"" IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics , vol. 1, pp. 339 - 371, Aug. 2020.
  2. R. W. Erickson and D. Maksimovic, Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 3rd Ed., Springer, 2020.

Instructor bio

Prof. Santanu Kapat

IIT Kharagpur
Dr. Santanu Kapat received the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (EE) from IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He was a Visiting Scholar with the ECE Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA during 2009 to 2010, and a Research Engineer with GE Global Research, Bengaluru from 2010 to 2011. Since August 2011, he has been with the EE Department (EED), IIT Kharagpur, where he is presently an Associate Professor. From July to November 2019, he was with the EED, IIT Delhi (on LIEN from IIT Kharagpur). His research interests include power management converters and high-performance digital control, applications to 48V-to Direct converters, data center, LED drivers, DC micro-grid, fast chargers and BMS. Dr. Kapat was the recipient of the INSA Young Scientist and INAE Young Engineering Award in 2016, and DAE Young Scientist Research Award in 2014. He has been serving as the Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-II, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 30 October 2022 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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