RCU Power Control Board

- Mixed-Signal Inverter Control
- High-Voltage DC-AC Conversion
- 18-Channel PWM Output
- Modbus SCADA Integration
Overview
A Nuvation Engineering client in the solar power industry needed a mixed-signal control board to operate their DC-AC inverter. The inverter was used on solar farms to generate power for the electrical grid. Nuvation Engineering designed and built the main control board for the inverter.
Project Details
Design features
- Mixed-signal board, DSP firmware development, and FPGA RTL design
- Drives multiple 3-phase IGBT matrices via an 18-ch PWM generator
- Current sensing, acquisition, measurement, conditioning, and DC-AC conversion
- Up to 1000 V and 1000 A DC inputs, 500kW AC output
- Communicates with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system over Modbus protocol
- ADI 6-channel, 12bit ADCs and TI F28335 DSP
- Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA watchdog
- RoHS Compliant
Our Process
How we work
From conceptualization to execution, Nuvation Engineering has decades of experience supporting product development through every stage.