Educational software interface for power electronic applications

The design of friendly user tools for power electronics applications is a hot topic among the researchers all over the world. In fact, the digital signal processors programming is a hard task which requires a deep knowledge of the specific hardware platform where the user control program is implemented. In this paper, a user interface for programming digital signal processors (DSP) to control a power electronic converter is presented. The proposed program, called jscomm, is currently used as a useful tool to understand how the DSP is programmed, to control a power converter safely and to monitor all the interesting variables of the power converter operation.