Real Time Monitoring for Model Based Design of Power Converters

Controllers for power converters have moved to the digital domain and the operating frequency has greatly increased making the process of debugging, tuning and experimenting with complex features more difficult. More powerful testbenches based on easily accessible System On Chip (SOC) devices can be used. This paper presents and compares two approaches to the problem. The first is a dedicated approach in which all the components of the system have been developed separately, the second one is based on the use of an integrated commercial enviroment such as Matlab & Simulink with ad hoc adaptation for real time monitoring and controller data acquisition.