Power Electronics Design
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The official GTU curriculum for Power Electronics Design (subject code BE05024041) as prescribed for PE · Semester 5 divides the course into 7 units, covering 62 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE05024041)Unit 1 Power Semiconductor Devices & Selection
- Power diodes
- IGBTs: characteristics
- switching behavior
- Wide bandgap devices (Si, SiC, GaN): comparison & applications Loss mechanisms: conduction
- reverse recovery Safe Operating Area (SOA)
- thermal limits Switching transients: dv/dt
- ringing basics Device selection based on rating
- switching frequency
Unit 2 Gate Driver Design
- Gate charge
- Miller plateau
- Switching waveforms & dynamic behavior Driver topologies: low-side
- Isolation: optocoupler
- digital isolators
- Selection of Gate resistance
- Bootstrap capacitor
- Gate driver protection (UVLO
- desaturation concept—introduction)
Unit 3 Passive Components & Energy Storage
- Capacitors: DC-link, ESR, ripple current
- lifetime Inductors & transformers: basics
- core materials
- Inductor sizing & saturation limits
- Core losses (conceptual: hysteresis + eddy currents)
- Winding effects (skin & proximity—intro level)
- Snubbers & clamp circuits
Unit 4 AC–DC Conversion & Input Stage
- Single-phase and three phase rectifiers with and without filter
- DC output estimation
- Input current waveform & harmonics
- Power factor basics
- EMI basics
- EMI sources (conducted & radiated)
- EMI filters (CM/DM basics)
- Inrush current limiting
- Component selection
Unit 5 DC- DC Power Converter Topologies and Design
- Design of Non-Isolated Converterslike Buck
- Buck–Boost inCCM and DCM modes
- Concept and Design steps of Isolated Converters like Flyback and Forward converters
- Half-Bridge and Full-Bridge DC- DC converters
- Concept of Soft- Switching -ZVS, ZCS
- Selection of topology considering Power level
- Isolation requirement
- Stress analysis on switches and diodes
- Efficiency considerations and trade-offs in converter design
Unit 6 Control, Sensing & Protection
- Control Techniques
- Voltage mode control
- Current mode control
- PWM generation
- Duty cycle control
- Need for compensators
- Type I, II, III compensators
- Stability basics (gain/phase margin) Sensing Methods- Current sensing: shunt
- Voltage sensing circuits Protection TechniquesOver-current protection (OCP)
- Over-voltage protection (OVP)
- Thermal shutdown Concept of small-signal modeling and control-to-output transfer function
Unit 7 Thermal, PCB & System-Level Concepts
- Thermal Design Concepts: Thermal resistance network
- Junction-to-ambient modelling
- Heat sink selection
- PCB Design: Layout for power loops
- Gate drive loop minimization
- Parasitics and their effects
- overshoot & EMI linkage Safety & Standards: Creepage and clearance distances
- Isolation requirements
- Relevant standards (IEC basics)
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