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NI unveils cost effective FPGA based control system

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BANGALORE, INDIA; National Instruments (NI) has launched its single board RIO GPIC. Based on the standard RIO architecture, it is ideal for smart, grid-tied power conversion systems with a comprehensive NI LabVIEW system design toolchain, thereby reducing the cost and risk of embedded system design.

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Inorder to meet the specific control, I/O, performance and cost needs of most smart-grid power electronics applications, including DC-to-AC, AC-to-DC, DC-to-DC and AC-to-AC converters for flexible AC transmission systems, renewable energy generation, energy storage and variable speed drive applications, the new system provides a standard set of analog and digital I/O and 58 DSP cores embedded in the FPGA fabric.

NI claims that this product will facilitate the smart grid power electronics commercialization. “NI programming tools actually allow engineers to program the control strategy at the FPGA level, which is the clear path for the future. Imagine yourself being able to write multiple control strategies that run in parallel to create new power electronics designs than can be reconfigured at the hardware level after years of deployment on the grid,” said Dr. Bill Kramer, acting R&D manager,energy systems integration technology, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Through the high-level graphical system design platform and standard reconfigurable I/O (RIO) FPGA-based control system, companies can in-source their designs without any knowledge of register level languages.

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