Hi

Can anyone post any links regarding analog and digital regulation......

Maybe a link with some newbie electronic toturials....

 

Are you talking about analog and digital control of power supplies or what?

 

Digital regulation????
now that's a first........

 

Hi

Can anyone post any links regarding analog and digital regulation......

Maybe a link with some newbie electronic toturials....

There should be a regulation that bars such posts

 

The key word for a digital power supply is SMPS (switching mode power supply). As for linear, have you tried linear power supply as a keyword for a google search?

 

There are advanced digital controllers for SMPS which do various kinds of control schemes depending on the situation.

For example,
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2524&param=en539261

http://cache.freescale.com/files/shared/doc/selector_guide/SG2074.pdf

Refering to SMPS in general as digital is fairly non-standard.

 

I have absolut no knowledge of regulation technique, but I'm going to participate in a course about analog/digital regulation, and hoped that I could gain just a little knowledge before starting.

I know that we in the cource are going to make an exercise in both analog and digital (by use of a DSP) regulation technique, just to see the difference between these techniques.

I think that the exercise i going to be something about regulating a electro magnet that make a metal ball soar.

 

That is actually not a power supply issue, but one of negative feedback, fundamental to many circuits, especially op amps. Power supplies use it too of course, but like I said, it is a fundamental concept.