Power Electronic Circuits
(3-0-0-3)
CMPE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the CMPE degree.
EE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the EE degree.
Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.
Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Electrical Energy
Course Coordinator:
Prerequisites: ECE 4330
Catalog Description
The analysis, control and design of switching power converters:rectifiers, cycloconverters, voltage-sourced and current-source
inverters, dc-dc converters, pfc and resonant converters.
Course Outcomes
Not Applicable
Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)
Outcome 1 (Students will demonstrate expertise in a subfield of study chosen from the fields of electrical engineering or computer engineering):
1. Ability to analyze, control and design switching power converters: rectifiers, voltage-sourced and current-source inverters, dc-dc converters, power factor correction circuits and resonant converters.
2. Understand the fundamentals of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), semiconductor switching devices, small signal modeling and closed-loop control of dc-dc converters.
Outcome 2 (Students will demonstrate the ability to identify and formulate advanced problems and apply knowledge of mathematics and science to solve those problems):
1. Successfully apply the analysis, control and design techniques studied under indicators 1.1 and 1.2 to real-world applications.
Outcome 3 (Students will demonstrate the ability to utilize current knowledge, technology, or techniques within their chosen subfield):
N/A
Topical Outline
Basic Principles and Background (1 week)
Steady-state analysis: flux, charge and energy balance
Switching matrices and existence functions
Cycloconverters
Six-Pulse Rectifiers and Inverters (4 weeks)
Uncontrolled single-phase voltage-sourced rectifier
Uncontrolled three-phase voltage-sourced rectifier
Discontinuous conduction effects
Line inductance and voltage notching
Phase-controlled rectifiers and inverters
Current-sourced inverters
Voltage-Sourced Inverters (1 week)
Square-wave and PWM inverters
Full-bridge, single-phase inverters
Modulation strategies, harmonic elimination
DC/DC Converters (6 weeks)
Non-isolated: buck, boost, buck-boost, Cuk, sepic, zeta
Transformer isolated: forward, flyback, half-bridge, full-bridge,
push-pull
Continuous/discontinuous conduction modes, ripple estimates
DC regulation: PWM, current mode, hysteretic
Averaged dynamic models: state-space and circuit-based
Small-signal analysis and control (continuous time)
Power Factor Correction (1 week)
DCM boost: constant and variable frequency control
CCM boost: peak and average current control
Resonant Power Conversion (2 weeks)
Lossless switching: ZCS, ZVS
Resonant dc-dc converters: SRC, PRC
Resonant inverters: resonant link, resonant pole
Quasi-resonant, multi-resonant and soft switching converters