Erping Zhou

This paper investigates design and implementation of Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm for Photo Voltaic (PV) applications on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform. The algorithm is developed by means of Hardware Description Language (Verilog). Algorithms were simulated on MODELSIM software and synthesized using ALTERA Quartus II software. Furthermore, hardware implementation is done using ALTERA Cyclone II FPGA starter board to verify the performance of the designed algorithms. The paper will investigate whether FPGA is a suitable hardware platform for real time MPPT controller.