Overview
Learn how to design and implement digital power supplies using Microchip's dsPIC33F range of microcontrollers during this three-day hands-on laboratory based design workshop.
The first day is dedicated to exploring the capabilities of the Microchip dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSC), the available tools and software libraries. If you are already an experienced programmer with Microchip products you may choose not to attend this first day. Days two and three cover stable compensator design and implementation for both voltage mode control and peak current mode control. By the end of day three you will have designed and then implemented several robust, stable digital power supplies.
Over the course of the three days we will cover the theory necessary to design and implement the compensators for several high performance, stable, digital power supplies. All theory is consolidated with hands-on practical labs at the well equipped work stations within the classroom. In addition, we will also measure the stability of all of the control loops using a Bode 100 network analyzer.
All attendees will also receive a complimentary Digital Power starter kit (DM330017-2) from Microchip and a free trail WDS license from Biricha if they wish*.
Agenda
Typically the morning session is dedicated to the study of theory and principles, whilst the afternoon session focuses on laboratory exercises to consolidate the theory.
All attendees will receive all of the software examples and templates which we use during the workshop to make programming your first digital power supplies easy and intuitive.
An overview of the course syllabus is given below:
Day 1: Introduction to Digital Power Programming (presented by Microchip)
The participants will typically work in pairs at a workstation. Each workstation will be equipped with a PC with relevant development software, digital power starter kit and an oscilloscope.
The material is supported by many practical examples and tutorials and includes a brief question and answer session at the end of each section.
The course fees include training, a printed copy of the training materials and lab manuals, lunch, refreshments and a free trial license for Biricha's power supply design software (WDS). Important: These softwares are NOT needed to understand the engineering material taught in the class*
Course Details
The class runs from 9:00am - 5:00pm on Days 1 and 2.
The class runs from 9:00am - 4:00pm on Day 3 to allow for easy travel.
On Day 4 the class runs 9:00am - 4:00pm to allow for easy travel.
The price includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
* 6 months trial license. You must have unrestricted access to internet. These software are not necessary for understanding the material in the class and available on request.
The first day is dedicated to exploring the capabilities of the Microchip dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSC), the available tools and software libraries. If you are already an experienced programmer with Microchip products you may choose not to attend this first day. Days two and three cover stable compensator design and implementation for both voltage mode control and peak current mode control. By the end of day three you will have designed and then implemented several robust, stable digital power supplies.
Over the course of the three days we will cover the theory necessary to design and implement the compensators for several high performance, stable, digital power supplies. All theory is consolidated with hands-on practical labs at the well equipped work stations within the classroom. In addition, we will also measure the stability of all of the control loops using a Bode 100 network analyzer.
All attendees will also receive a complimentary Digital Power starter kit (DM330017-2) from Microchip and a free trail WDS license from Biricha if they wish*.
Agenda
Typically the morning session is dedicated to the study of theory and principles, whilst the afternoon session focuses on laboratory exercises to consolidate the theory.
All attendees will receive all of the software examples and templates which we use during the workshop to make programming your first digital power supplies easy and intuitive.
An overview of the course syllabus is given below:
Day 1: Introduction to Digital Power Programming (presented by Microchip)
- Introduction to dsPIC33 family architecture and peripherals
- Device setup: Configuration of registers and the oscillator
- General Purpose: I/O ports, timers and interrupts
- Digital Power: PWM, comparator and Analog to digital converter
- Introduction to MPLAB X IDE and program/debug tools
- Fixed point math and number formatting
- Setting up the ADC module and using ADC interrupts
- Detailed study of analog power supply design fundamentals
- Review of analog compensator design (Type II & Type III) for voltage and current mode control
- Discrete control theory, Z transforms and digital convolution
- Step-by-step digital power supply design
- Implementing a simple digital controller for your digital power supply
- Stable digital compensators for voltage mode control
- Hands-on laboratory exercises
- Detailed review of analog peak current mode design
- Sub-harmonic oscillations and slope compensation
- Digital peak current mode controller design
- Reducing phase margin erosion
- High performance digital power supply design and implementation (both voltage mode and current mode)
- Hands-on laboratory exercises
- Learn how to design and stabilise single phase and interleaved digital power factor correction systems from ground up quickly and easily during this in-depth day.
- Fundamentals of power delivery, power quality & PFC
- Single Phase CCM Boost PFC topology operation & design
- Digital PFC translated from analog PFC
- Step-by-step digital PFC control loop design (voltage loop and current loop)
- Voltage feed-forward & filter design in digital domain
- Digital interleaved PFC
- Live demos on Microchip digital PFC board (single phase and interleaved)
The participants will typically work in pairs at a workstation. Each workstation will be equipped with a PC with relevant development software, digital power starter kit and an oscilloscope.
The material is supported by many practical examples and tutorials and includes a brief question and answer session at the end of each section.
The course fees include training, a printed copy of the training materials and lab manuals, lunch, refreshments and a free trial license for Biricha's power supply design software (WDS). Important: These softwares are NOT needed to understand the engineering material taught in the class*
Course Details
The class runs from 9:00am - 5:00pm on Days 1 and 2.
The class runs from 9:00am - 4:00pm on Day 3 to allow for easy travel.
On Day 4 the class runs 9:00am - 4:00pm to allow for easy travel.
The price includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
* 6 months trial license. You must have unrestricted access to internet. These software are not necessary for understanding the material in the class and available on request.
Pricing and Location
Date
17th - 20th October 2017 (4 day workshop)
in Boston, USA
Pricing
2495 USD for 4 days
Course Details
The class runs from 9:00am - 5:00pm on Days 1 and 3.
On Day 4 the class runs 9:00am - 4:00pm to allow for easy travel.
The price includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
All attendees receive a complimentary trial license for Biricha's WDS*
Address:
Microchip Technology Inc Training Facility
112 Turnpike Rd # 100, Westborough, MA 01581, USA
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Cancellation Policy
Classes are subject to cancellation if the minimum number of attendees is not met ten days prior to the date of the workshop.
Minimum = 5
Maximum = 20
In the event of short notice cancellation, Microchip and Biricha's liability is limited solely to the refund of the course fees.
No refund will be given if registration is cancelled within one week of the workshop date.
In fairness to all attendees, confirmed participants who do not attend the scheduled session are obliged to pay the liable fee.
Audience
These workshops are designed for analog PSU designers as well as embedded systems programmers who:
Prerequisites
* 6 months trial license. You must have unrestricted access to internet. These software are not necessary for understanding the material in the class and available on request.
These workshops are designed for analog PSU designers as well as embedded systems programmers who:
- Need learn how to design stable digital controllers for their power applications
- Have little or no experience of discrete time control theory and wish to reduce their learning curve
- Need to get up to speed with programming the dsPIC33 (or any Microchip PIC® MCU using the XC16 compiler) and would prefer to minimize and simplify the amount of code that they need to write
- Need to get their digital PSUs out of the door quickly and would prefer to use pre-coded templates instead of coding their own from scratch
Prerequisites
- The audience should have a degree in electrical/electronic engineering, computer science or equivalent.
- These workshops are highly technical, intended for professional engineers and are not suitable for the general public without relevant qualifications.
* 6 months trial license. You must have unrestricted access to internet. These software are not necessary for understanding the material in the class and available on request.
Pricing and Location
Date
21st - 24th November 2017 (4 day workshop)
in Ismaning (Nr. Munich), Germany.
Pricing
2495 EURO for 4 days
Course Details
The class runs from 9:00am - 5:00pm on Days 1 and 2.
On Day 4 the class runs 9:00am - 4:00pm to allow for easy travel.
The price includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
All attendees receive a complimentary single seat commercial license for Biricha's WDS*
Address:
Microchip Technologies
Osterfeldstraße 82, 85737 Ismaning, Germany
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Nearby Hotels - Within walking distance <5 mins:
Hotel Zur Post
Hotel zur Mühle
Cancellation Policy
Classes are subject to cancellation if the minimum number of attendees is not met ten days prior to the date of the workshop.
Minimum = 5
Maximum = 20
In the event of short notice cancellation, Microchip and Biricha's liability is limited solely to the refund of the course fees.
No refund will be given if registration is cancelled within one week of the workshop date.
In fairness to all attendees, confirmed participants who do not attend the scheduled session are obliged to pay the liable fee.
Classes are subject to cancellation if the minimum number of attendees is not met ten days prior to the date of the workshop.
Minimum = 5
Maximum = 20
In the event of short notice cancellation, Microchip and Biricha's liability is limited solely to the refund of the course fees.
No refund will be given if registration is cancelled within one week of the workshop date.
In fairness to all attendees, confirmed participants who do not attend the scheduled session are obliged to pay the liable fee.
Audience
These workshops are designed for analog PSU designers as well as embedded systems programmers who:
- Need learn how to design stable digital controllers for their power applications
- Have little or no experience of discrete time control theory and wish to reduce their learning curve
- Need to get up to speed with programming the dsPIC33 (or any Microchip PIC® MCU using the XC16 compiler) and would prefer to minimize and simplify the amount of code that they need to write
- Need to get their digital PSUs out of the door quickly and would prefer to use pre-coded templates instead of coding their own from scratch
Prerequisites
- The audience should have a degree in electrical/electronic engineering, computer science or equivalent.
- These workshops are highly technical, intended for professional engineers and are not suitable for the general public without relevant qualifications.
* 6 months trial license. You must have unrestricted access to internet. These software are not necessary for understanding the material in the class and available on request.
Past Participants
Since 2008 Biricha has run highly popular hands-on workshops and industrial seminars. Some of the companies who have attended our workshops include:
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Adaptive Materials, Inc. Delta Energy Systems Eltek Valere Inc. J.W. Speaker Corperation Miller Electric Schlumberger Robert Bosch Kft Tehnical University of Denmark SYKO Gesellschaft Wiener Plein & Baus Siemens AS Delta GmbH Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co.KG Osram GmbH Wijdeven PS&IT OMICRON Lab Efore Eberspächer Controls GmbH & Co. KG Physik Instrumente MGV Stromversorgungen GmbH Powertronic GmbH & Co. KG Baker Hughes Inteq Martek Power Thales Communications, Inc. Raytheon Systems Limited SOPRANO Martekpower Belscanti Bosch ST THALES Avionics Thurlby Thandar Instruments Ltd AEG Power Solutions CAMCO Produktions und Vertriebs ABB Stotz-Kontakt GmbH Astrium GmbH BMW - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG Contronics Engineering BV Effekta Regeltechnik GmbH Fronius International GmbH Hirschmann Automation and Control Ingenieurbüro Sierak ON Semiconductor OSB AG Google Inc Qestronic GmbH Siemens CT Tucker GmbH RGM SPA OSRAM SPA Meta System S.p.A University of Salerno Odel S.p.A. MORI L. RADDRIZZATORI SRL Dinema S.p.A. Agemont SpA BTicino S.p.A. Acme Aerospace General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc. Flex Power Golden Motor USA Goodrich Aircraft Wheels and Brakes Lineage Power Paradigm Research Corporation Plexus Engineering Solutions Cranfield University Accutronics Ltd Gordon Design Ltd Imagination technologies Raytheon Systems Ltd ML Electronics University of Nottingham Pintsch Bamag Panasonic Electronic Devices Europe GmbH Lear Corporation GmbH Institut ELSYS APtronic AG Robert Bosch GmbH Beckman Coulter, Inc. Eltek ITT Pentad Design Raytheon Filtran Limited Powernet Oy NXP Norwegian Univ of Sci & Tech Huawei |
AAC Microtec ABB Robotics Ablepower Corp Advantest Europe GmbH ARROW DE Arrow Denmark ARROW SWEDEN Automotive Ingenieurbüro AVL List GmbH Beru Electronics GmbH Cassidian Electronics CB Svendsen A/S Continental Automotive Austria GmbH Corrosion Service Cybercom Sweden AB Delta Energy Systems (Switzerland) AG Develco A/S Dipolar AB DRS Pivotal Power E Plug AS EADS Germany GmbH Cassidian EBV Elektronik Elreg as Emerson Process Management Ericsson AB Ericsson Hungary Ltd. Etteplan Design Center Fairchild Semiconductor Fr.Sauter Ag GE Aviation Gebrüder Frei GmbH & Co. Georgia Tech Grundfos Hamworthy Oil & Gas AS Heim Electronic GmbH HeyTech Systementwicklung Huawei Technologies Sweden AB: idem Infineon Technologies AG Ingenieurbüro Edel IPT Technology GmbH Jablotron Alarms JTOE GmbH Co. KG JW Speaker kk-electronic a/s KOSTAL Industrie Elektrik Lacon embedded Liftoff Lincoln Electric Linde Material Handling GmbH Magma Mekatronik Makine San. ve Tic. A.S. Megger Mikrokrets AS MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC NMB-Minebea GmbH North China University of Technology PBF GRoup Pico Test Power-One s.r.o. Premotec Qrtech QUEL GmbH Rehm Schweißtechnik SAAB EDS Selex Galileo S.p.A. Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies Avent Silica Apple Inc. Solcept AG Solter Soldadura SL SYS TEC electronic GmbH Thita Elektronik Thrane & Thrane A/S Università degli Studi di Salerno University of Zilina VACON Oyj Vektrex Versatile Power W-IE-NE-R Plein & Baus GmbH XSembedded GmbH ZZzero Aps TMD Zefatek Co., LTD Triton Electronics Ltd Microchip |
ABB Medium Voltage Products Advanced Space Power Equipment Altergy Systems Ametek Artesyn Austria G.M.B.H & Co Kg Artesyn Embedded Technologies ARTI Industrial Electronics Aselsan Elektronik San. Ve Tic. Inc. Aurora Networks BOSCH communications Systems EVI Audio GmbH Bose Corp. Chamberlain CM Comandos Lineares Cobham Satcom Cobree Continental Corporation Crane Electronics, Inc. Delphi Dialog Semiconductor Diehl Aerospace Dp Applications Engineering DRS Technologies Dynexsemi EcoPower Elsis A.S. Enersys Et System Electronic Gmbh eta plus electronic gmbh F5 Networks Fieger Consulting&Softwaredesign FMC Technologies Schilling Robotics Fohhn Audio Ag GE Lighting General Atomics Aeronautical General Physics France Gotec Heinzinger electronic GmbH Hewlett-Packard Co Icepower A/S IPT Design Kacst Knorr Bremse SFS GmbH L 3 communications Lear Corporation Life Technologies Linera Linestream Technologies Lockheed Martin Moog Moxtek Inc Murata Power Solutions Ortoceratit Ab P. B. Design& Development Ltd Pauly Steuer- Und Regelanlagen Gmbh & Co., Kg Pb Design And Developments Limited Philips Pkc Electronics Power Technics B.V. JPL (NASA) Precision Inc. Qualcomm Wireless GmbH Rögelein GmbH Saab Electronic Defence Systems SANROR INT. Siemens Ag, I Ia Ce Se Ds Pe4 Sl Power Electronics Sweco Elektronik AB Syddansk Universitet Synapse-Wireless Tantec A/S TDK-Lambda Americas Technologie Netzwerk Allgäu Tomra Systems ASA Tttech Computertechnik Ag Unisa Unitech Energy AS Università Politecnica Delle Marche University Of Applied Science Darmstadt UTC Aerospace Systems - Wheels & Brakes UTRC Texas Instruments WesternGeco AS Würth Elektronik Eisos Gmbh & Co.Kg Xcel Power |
Testimonials from Past Participants
- "This is one of the best workshops I have ever attended. In three days an analog designer can leave ready to work on their first digital power supply design. Gaining the equivalent knowledge independently could take years."
- "This course covers everything an individual needs to know about digital power supply design. It starts from a beginners standpoint and walks you through the entire process to a complete design. Very very good course!"
- "Outstanding workshop! This answered many control theory question which have vexed me for years!"
- "The class provides a very comprehensive look at digital power supply and compensator design. It does not assume attendees have expert knowledge and covers from theory to practical design in a very straightforward and easy to understand format."
- "The class provides a very comprehensive look at digital power supply and compensator design. It does not assume attendees have expert knowledge and covers from theory to practical design in a very straightforward and easy to understand format."