| Abstract |
Nowadays, thanks to the development of communications and systems, the interactivity has taken a fun-damental role in engineering education. An important challenge is the effective use of computer toolsthat allow associating the teaching methods with the new way the students learn. In power electronicsarea, recognizing different concepts of switching converters is more simple thanks to simulation andexperimentation tools. Nevertheless, the general-purpose tools applied in the analysis and simulation ofelectronic circuits and systems do not take advantage properly of the interactivity that computer appli-cations can offer. As a consequence it is necessary to develop modern tools with specific capacities ascomplementation of teaching and researching processes in power electronics.This article presents the results of the development of a tool for researching and teaching activities inpower electronics area, implemented in LabVIEW called PVCLAB. It contains different dedicated mod-ules to provide interactive conceptual training for analysis, design, simulation and control of DC/DCswitching power converters. The state-space models of these converters include resistors in inductors,capacitors, MOSFET and diodes. |
