applications and promote an intensified use of the potential
of the processors being studied.
Applications in the field of power electronics were
selected since they represent typical examples of the use of
these processors and they also serve as demonstrations for
the course in static converters offered in the same academic
semester.
For each of the applications studied, we developed the
following steps: design of the converter and the definition of
a complete schematic; PCB layout, construction and
assembly; development of programs; experimental testing of
the prototype.
Since the applications are based upon well-known
structures, the mathematical models used to guide the design
of the digital controllers were taken from the technical
literature on the subject or from testing the developed
prototypes.