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CHAPTER 2: EXPERIMENTAL IMPLEMENTATION OF MATRIX CONVERTER DRIVE<br />
over-voltage, wiring the voltage transducer’s output directly to the 9-way connector<br />
for the analog signals. This allowed a more flexible control on the trip threshold di-<br />
rectly on the FPGA board with one <strong>of</strong> its hardware trips, that can be adjusted digitally<br />
within the code. This modification allowed also a continuous monitoring <strong>of</strong> the clamp<br />
voltage through one <strong>of</strong> the analog-to-digital converters on the FPGA board, and the<br />
possibility to display this value on the new FPGA’s display.<br />
2 Q3FC 1 Gnd<br />
4 Gnd 3 Q2FC<br />
6 Q1FC 5 Q2RA<br />
8 Q3RA 7 Q2RB<br />
10 Q3RC 9 Q2RC<br />
12 Q3RB 11 Q3FB<br />
14 Gnd 13 Q2FB<br />
16 DirA 15 Q1FB<br />
18 DirB 17 Q1RC<br />
20 DirC 19 Q1RA<br />
22 Q3FA 21 Q1RB<br />
24 Gnd 23 Q2FA<br />
26 Q1FA 25 Gnd<br />
Table 2.1: Pin-Out <strong>of</strong> Matrix<br />
control signal<br />
2.4 Controller boards<br />
1 Gnd<br />
2 IoutA<br />
3 IoutB<br />
4 IoutC<br />
5 NC<br />
6 V Clamp<br />
7 VST<br />
8 VRS<br />
9 NC<br />
Table 2.2: Pin-Out <strong>of</strong> Matrix<br />
analog signals<br />
The original control boards for this converter were missing, so new ones have been<br />
purchased: a Texas Instruments TMS320C6713 DSK fitted with the Actel FPGA A3P400<br />
based board and the daughter card LLC Educational Fig. 2.6; these are the current work<br />
horses used for nearly every project in the PEMC group at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Notting-<br />
ham. The DSP features a 225MHz core, 32MB <strong>of</strong> dynamic ram used to store data to<br />
be transferred via the host interface and a 32bit wide external memory interface used<br />
to communicate with the FPGA. The used flash-based FPGA has 400k System gates,<br />
9k flip-flops, 54 Kb RAM and a maximum <strong>of</strong> 151 I/O pins. The board, designed by<br />
Dr. Lee Empringham, has a 50MHz crystal, whose frequency is used for the three state<br />
machines that generate the switching signals. The DSP and the FPGA boards work in<br />
a symbiosis that acts as follows: the FPGA is set to generate an interrupt on the DSP<br />
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