Transition to FPGA from MCU development
I have been working for the last few years on developing different power electronics projects using TI’s amazing C2000 MCUs.
Unfortunately we ran into a situation where our BD team got us a one off project of some crazy multistage multilevel topology complex enough that our power electronics engineer said we would need to switch to an FPGA to implement.
I have been tasked with selecting an FPGA platform for this project and I don’t know a whole lot about FPGAs.
I’m mainly asking for experienced FPGA developers to comment as my company has a history of hardware engineers overspeccing microcontroller platforms that have absolutely trash documentation and no support but look amazing on a one page datasheet with all the buzz words.
My question is what platform base would you recommend for power electronics and control development? Does picking this platform give you access to all IPs that perform for example simple control loops, PLL’s, etc like a microcontroller say C2000 usually does? I just don’t want to pick and get burned ahead of time. Thanks