Converter Circuits

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5701, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. This course introduces more advanced concepts of switched-mode converter circuits. Realization of the power semiconductors in inverters or in converters having bidirectional power flow is explained. Power diodes, power MOSFETs, and IGBTs are explained, along with the origins of their switching times. Equivalent circuit models are refined to include the effects

• Understand implementation of power semiconductor devices in converters
• Explain origins of discontinuous conduction mode and solve DCM converters
• Understand basic dc-dc converter and dc-ac inverter circuits
• Apply transformer isolation in dc-dc converter topologies