Power Electronics Design
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Power Electronics Design Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Power Electronics Design (subject code 2172410) as prescribed for PE · Semester 7 divides the course into 8 units, covering 24 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 (2172410)Unit 1 Introduction to Engineering Design Process
- Design: Definition – Steps of Engineering Design – Considerations for Engineering Design w.r.t
- Power Electronics (Calculation of Component Values
- Tolerance, etc
- Component Selection
- Electrical Noise
- PCB Design) 6 10% -
Unit 2 Non-Isolated Driver Circuits Design
- Design of Non-Isolated Driver Circuits for Various Power Devices (Power BJT, MOSFET
- IGBT, SCR, TRIAC) – Grounding Considerations for Driver Circuits 6 10% -
Unit 3 Isolated Driver Circuits Design
- Requirement & Importance of Isolation – Design of Isolated Driver Circuits for Various Power Devices (Power BJT, MOSFET
- IGBT, SCR, TRIAC) using Opto-Coupler & Pulse Transformer – Floating Ground Considerations for Isolated Driver Circuits 6 15% -
Unit 4 Line Frequency Magnetics Design
- Transformer and Inductor Design for Line Frequency 4 10% -
Unit 5 High Frequency Magnetics Design
- Transformer Design for Bridge
- Flyback and Push-Pull Converters – Transformer Design for Driver Circuits Inductor Design for Power Converters 6 15% -
Unit 6 Design of Measurement & Protection Circuits
- Power Switch Protection Circuits – Control Terminal (Gate/Base) Protection Circuit – Short Circuit Protection – Over Voltage & Over Current Protection Circuits – di/dt & dv/dt Protection Circuits – Thermal Protection V, I, f Measurement – Measurement of Analog Quantities 8 20% -
Unit 7 Thermal Design
- Thermal Resistance & its Consideration – Heat Sink Calculations and Design – Forced (Concept of Cooling Fan, Water and Oil for Cooling of Heat Sink) and Natural Cooling of Heat Sinks 6 10% -
Unit 8 PCB Design
- Concept of PCB – Terminology – Types (Paper
- Glass Epoxy
- Aluminium Clad
- Single Layer
- Double Layer
- Multi Layered
- Flexible) Design Consideration for Voltage Isolation and Current Capacity
- Noise Reduction Through PCB Layout
- High and Low Power Circuit on Single PCB, Component & I/O Placement – PCB Design for Mixed Signal (Analog and Digital) Circuits 6 10% -
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