TI Power Electronics Board for NI ELVIS III
TI Power Electronics Board for NI ELVIS III provides a hands-on experience for learning power electronics and power management. The board is comprised of four independent sections that are the basic building blocks for understanding the functions of components used in power electronic systems and relevant applications.
Discrete Linear Section
It is comprised of a Discrete Linear sub-section and an Integrated Buck sub-section.
- Discrete Linear sub-section comprised of the fundamental building blocks of a linear regulator: MOSFET pass device, output capacitor, error amplifier, MOSFET gate driver.
- Integrated Buck sub-section operates as an adjustable static and dynamic voltage source for this discrete linear sub-section
- Jumpers on board enable testing with different system configurations
- Current sensors facilitate current measurements using standard voltage probes
- Test points on board allow measurement of voltage and currents needed to understand the operation of linear regulators
- It provides the hands-on experiments on,
- Linear regulator in DC open loop operations
- Linear regulator in AC open loop operations
- Error amplifier operation
- Linear regulator in closed loop oepration.
Discrete Buck Section
- It consist of the fundamental building blocks of a buck regulator: MOSFET half-bridge, output L-C Filter, error amplifier, PWM Modulator and MOSFET gate driver.
- Test points on board allow measurement of voltage and currents needed to understand the operation of buck regulators.
- This section provides the hands-on experiements on,
- Buck regulator in DC open loop operation.
- Buck regulator in AC open loop operation.
- Buck regulator in continuous mode and discontinuous mode operation.
- Buck regulator in closed loop operation.
DC-AC Inverter Section
- It comprised of the fundamental building blocks which allow understanding the Pulse-Width Modulated and Square-Wave Modulated inverter functions: MOSFET Full-bridge, output L-C Filter, PWM/SWM modulator, MOSFETs gate driver.
- A high frequency transformer in the board operate in step-up and steip-down mode.
- Test points on board allow measurement of voltage and currents needed to understand the operation of DC-AC inverter.
- It provides the hands-on experiments on,
- Inverters in PWM mode operation.
- Inverter in SWM mode operation.
- high-frequency transformer in step-up and step-down operation.
AC-DC Rectifier Section
- It consist of the fundamental building blocks of a rectifier and post-regulators: Diode Full-bridge, output capacitor, integrated buck regulator, integrated linear regulator.
- Test points on board allow measurement of voltage and currents needed to understand the operation of AC-DC rectifiers.
- This section provides the hands-on experiements on,
- rectifiers in steady-state operation
- post-regulators operation.
