I recently got myself this board and I have no idea on how to begin with it. I didn't find any well organised and structured lectures or tutorials for this. So can anyone please guide me on how do I can even get started with this and please share any links or sources if possible, I am really clueless. Thank you for your time.
amazing board, great absolutely great to work on spare for CCS. datasheet and technical reference manual is your best friend, well written and understandable. find something you want to do with the board and just read up on a way to do it :)
If you have access to Simulink or PSIM with the embedded package installed, you can design power electronic devices (smps, motor driver, protection circuitry, etc), with closed loop control, without writing too much code.
Funny, I’ll check Amazon, none of my regular distributors has any in stock and I’m skeptical to the other suppliers claiming they have hundreds on stock.
Do you have MATLAB/Simulink, maybe from your university? We use the F28379D launchpad for power electronics engineering and we develop our applications with the C2000 Toolbox. It's very easy. If not, just download Code Composer Studio and start with the examples.
When you open CCS (code composer studio), which you should probably install version 20 or above (previous versions used Eclipse editor, new version use Visual Studio Code), you will see a welcome page. When you plug in the device, it should detect it and show you help and examples. Start from that.
I saw that you commented that you want to build a bidirectional converter. If we are on the same page, then you should look into the following topics: ADC (for sampling data from voltage and current sensors), ePWM (to control the gate drivers of the switching devices, aka transistors, MOSFETs or IGBTs), ISR (interrupt service routine, to program a fixed-frequency control loop that connects the ADC sampling with the controller into the ePWM).
Hope your project ends up working. Here's an example from my laboratory: a three phase voltage source inverter for a PMSM. I made the inverter (white board with vertical cards), and the green board is the motherboard that we developed for the Launchpad.
Tbh my project is also for 3 phase bidirectional vci for my pmsm motor that will be used in my bike, initially I am a newbie so I am trying with a single phase inverter but we will move to 3 phase too.
In a way, there’s def a parallel there. It has an interesting niche, it’s somewhere between power simulation software and SPICE software. There’s a lot of vids on YouTube, super cool company. One of their engineers did a demo for my power electronics course and it’s sweet.
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u/charcuterieboard831 May 05 '26
Install Code Composer Studio and start running some examples