Configurable Load Emulation Using FPGA and Power Amplifiers for Automotive Power ICs

Harrant, Manuel; Nirmaier, Thomas; Pelz, Georg; Dona, Fabrizio; Grimm, Christoph

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-01418-0_7

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“…2, used for this kind of automotive application emulation, was already presented in [12], [13] and used for emulation of either incandescent lamps or Lithium-Ion battery cells. Considering as many automotive application components as possible, we did some further development in this hardware concept as well as the software architecture.…”

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“…The differential equations were transformed, as described in [12], to be used for real-time evaluation inside the FPGA target. The dynamic behavior of the battery is dependent on the discharge current and the state of charge.…”

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“…The amplifier's inputs can be configured dynamically working as a voltage source or as a current sink inside the FPGA. In the presented configuration, CH3 is configured as voltage source according to [13] to generate the DUT's supply voltage and CH0 is configured as current sink according to [12] to sink the calculated load current.…”

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Monte Carlo based post-silicon verification considering automotive application variances

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Proceedings of the 2013 9th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME)

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In this paper we present a fully automated approach to consider device-to-device variances of automotive power applications during post-silicon verification. Due to the high complexity of target applications for automotive smart power microelectronics, it is not sufficient to affirm compliance to their specification. Car manufacturers therefore push for more extensive application robustness beyond classical methods. To cope with this requirement a FPGA platform is used to evaluate physical equations of automotive power application components in real-time together with a dynamic power amplifier to interface the digital FPGA outputs to the analog world. The functionality and the advantage of this approach is evaluated based on several Monte Carlo experiments by using an Advanced Front Lighting system as an example.

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