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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Need a crash course in FPGAs

I just, uh, "discovered" FPGAs about a week ago and from what I've learned so far, they seem perfectly suited for vector control of an induction motor, compared to running a 100k lines of C code thro...
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14 years ago

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The big question is do you really need floating point? do you really use the entire dynamic range?...

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Dunno for sure - that's technically above my pay grade (these days even janitor is above my pay grade, but that's another issue altogether)...

Hmm... I notice that a lot of these buggers run on 1.5V. 1.5V logic and 200kW motor drives tend to not get along. Definitely don't want to implement the ADCs in the FPGA if nothing else.