PONOVO Power: Smart Grid Testing
Newest Line of Smart Grid Test Equipment Brought to Market in Record Time
The PONOVO engineering team was able to design and deliver its new PNF800 series relay tester in just six months with Xilinx FPGAs, cutting time-to-market by more than 50 percent and increasing system-level performance by 80 percent for test and calibration of relay protection devices, and by 80 percent to monitor electrical power operations. By replacing ASIC devices with flexible, high-performance Xilinx FPGAs, PONOVO also reduced bill-of-materials (BOM) costs and bolstered system-level functionality.
The PNF800 series tester is a high-performance smart relay tester used in the field to monitor the safety and reliability of next-generation smart grid systems through testing of fiber digital relays for proper operation before being put into operation and throughout their life cycle. With Virtex-6, PONOVO’s advanced tester integrates eight optical Ethernet channels, four real-time optical power measure interfaces, and 12 analog output channels, leading technical trends in relay test field onto an advanced smart test solution. The PNF600 series is a low power portable system used by test engineers to monitor/ record and analyze the quality of electrical power system operations from any location for up to 3,600 hours. Digital signal processing-related IP in Spartan-6 makes it possible to perform advanced calculations 50 percent faster for amplitude, phase, and frequency of harmonics in power systems.
Additional Information
- Read the press release, "PONOVO Power Co. Delivers Newest Line of Smart Grid Test Equipment in Record Time Using Xilinx FPGAs" in the Xilinx newsroom.