Fig. 1. Three phase seven level diode clamped inverter
Fig. 2. Non shoot through mode equivalent circuit
Fig. 3. Shoot through mode equivalent circuit
Fig. 4. Phase disposition PWM
Fig. 5. Phase opposite disposition PWM
Fig. 6. Phase shifted carrier control technique
Fig. 7. Simulation of seven level diode clamped multilevelinverter
Fig. 8. Third harmonic injected reference waveform
Fig. 9. Stator current for phase disposition carrier PWM
Fig. 10. Line to line voltage for in phase disposition carrierPWM
Fig. 11. Phase voltage for phase disposition carrier PWM
Fig. 12. Various THD measured during simulation for PD PWM technique. (a) Line to line voltage THD (b) Phase voltage THD (c) Stator current THD
Fig. 13. Reference and actual speed
Fig. 14. Proposed Sequential Architecture for PDPWM
Fig. 15. FPGA architecture for Carrier frequency samplingmodule
Fig. 16. FPGA architecture for Reference carrier generationmodule
Fig. 17. Phase comparison module
Fig. 18. FPGA Carrier Pulse for PD PWM using Modelsim
Fig. 19. FPGA carrier pulse reference waveform for PDPWM using modelsim
Fig. 20. FPGA Carrier ? Reference Generation PD PWMusing Modelsim
Fig. 21. FPGA PWM generation PD PWM using Modelsim
Fig. 22. FPGA Reference PD PWM using Modelsim
Fig. 23. Proposed hardware for Speed control of inductionmotor using PDPWM implemented on FPGA
Fig. 24. Wiring diagram for Diode Clamped seven levelInverter ? one leg
Fig. 25. Power supply unit for Diode Clamped seven levelInverter ? one leg
Fig. 26. Proposed hardware circuit set up
Fig. 27. PWM pulse generated from FPGA displayed in DSO
Fig. 28. Current THD measured using THD meter
Fig. 29. Voltage THD measured using THD meter
Fig. 30. Phase voltage THD measured using THD meter
Fig. 31. Phase current THD measured using THD meter
Table 1. Switch states for three phase seven level diode clamped inverter
Table 2. Comparison of different measures on various PWM techniques on seven level diode clamped multilevel inverter
Table 3. Parameters used of power circuit used for simulation
Table 4. Comparison of simulated and actual quantitative parameters of the proposed hardware circuit
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