VLSI design Based Three phase power Inverter Gating

A three phase inverter is a common unit found in industrial drives meant for control of induction motors. Convention gating circuit meant for gating of inverters has the following problems.

1. Circuit Delays. Large complicated circuits running at very high frequencies have one big problem to tackle - the problem of delays in propagation of signals through gates and wires ... even for areas a few micrometers across! The operation speed is so large that as the delays add up, they can actually become comparable to the clock speeds.  

2. Power. Another effect of high operation frequencies is increased consumption of power. This has two-fold effect - devices consume batteries faster, and heat dissipation increases. Coupled with the fact that surface areas have decreased, heat poses a major threat to the stability of the circuit itself.  

3. Layout. Laying out the circuit components is task common to all branches of electronics. What's so special in our case is that there are many possible ways to do this; there can be multiple layers of different materials on the same silicon, there can be different arrangements of the smaller parts for the same component and so on.  

    This project demonstrates the use of a VLSI kit for the gating of three phase inverter in different modes.

ADVANTAGES OVER ANALOG SYSTEMS

• No temperature drift of tuning parameters
• Component count dramatically reduced resulting in higher Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
• Enclosure density and size dramatically reduced.
• Fewer wiring connections.
• All tuning and adjustments are made in software thus hardware adjustments which are error prone and not easily reversible are not required