International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems (IJRES)
Vol 12, No 2: July 2023

FPGA-based fault analysis for 7-level switched ladder multi-level inverter using decision tree algorithm

Nithya Ramalingam (Annamalai University)
Anitha Thiagarajan (Annamalai University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jul 2023

Abstract

The proposed method involves the fault analysis of the inverter switches present in the multi-level inverter (MLI) circuitry. The decision tree machine learning algorithm is incorporated for the fault analysis of the inverter switches. The multi-level inverter utilized in this work is a 7-level switched ladder multi-level inverter. There is 4 number of switches in the design of a 7-level inverter driven by the non-carrier digital pulse width modulation signals. The non-carried-based digital pulse-width modulator (DPWM) generation is generated using the event angle for the 7-level of the switched ladder inverter. The proposed method investigates the stuck-at-fault occurrences of the 4 switches in the inverter by manipulating the decision tree parameters such as entropy, information gain, and decision tree. Based on the decision tree, the very high-speed integrated circuit hardware description language (VHDL) code is developed by making use of the behavioral modeling and validated for the power, area in the Xilinx Vivado tool. The real-time feasibility is verified for the proposed method by synthesizing the developed VHDL code in the field programmable gate array (FPGA) device.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJRES

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

The centre of gravity of the computer industry is now moving from personal computing into embedded computing with the advent of VLSI system level integration and reconfigurable core in system-on-chip (SoC). Reconfigurable and Embedded systems are increasingly becoming a key technological component ...