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Northern Power selects Analog Devices’ SHARC processors for wind turbines
Norwood, Mass.— Analog Devices, Inc. says its ADI SHARC digital signal processors (DSPs) have been designed into Northern Power Systems’ flagship Northwind 100 community-scale wind turbines. The Northwind 100 uses an advanced “digital drivetrain” to deliver 100 kilowatts of rated power for community wind applications such as schools/universities, businesses, farms, and municipalities.
Leveraging SHARC processors, data converters and other advanced ADI components, the Northwind 100′s permanent magnet direct drive (PMDD) design eliminates the need for a gearbox in favor of a full power converter.
The Northwind 100 generator’s power flow is regulated by the power converter to compensate for variable wind speeds, which helps to maximize energy extraction, said Analog Devices. This capability enables a Northwind 100 wind turbine to provide a steady flow of clean power to a local grid, simplifying grid interconnect infrastructure and maintaining grid stability, according to the company.
Kiran Kumar, lead controls/embedded engineer, Northern Power Systems said that ADI’s signal processing platform has helped the company realize significant system performance gains without cost compromises.
ADI said at the heart of this system is the 32-bit floating point SHARC 21363 digital signal processor, which hosts real-time closed-loop control algorithms to efficiently control the Northwind 100′s generator and power converter subsystems, based in part on incoming data provided by the ADI AD7656 16-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) embedded in the data acquisition hardware and ADI dual-axis iMEMS ADXL203 accelerometer sub-assembly part affixed to the turbine’s nacelle.
Delivering core processing performance up to 333 MHz/2 GFLOPS with support for IEEE 32-bit/40-bit floating point and 32-bit fixed point operations, SHARC 21363 processors use an enhanced Single Instruction, Multiple-Data (SIMD) architecture to provide the real-time processing bandwidth and atomicity required to keep these subsystems running in precise coordination, said Analog Devices.
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