| Abstract |
The spreading use of the personal type computers in all aspects of engineering such as drafting, analysis, simulation and design is offering a solution to the problems of design, analysis and simulation of the ever increasing number of available and potentially realizable power converter configurations. Efforts have recently been made to provide analysis and simulation packages suitable for the study of power converters. The paper describes a new approach to the problem. The main strenghts of the proposed program are user-friendliness, circuit drawing capabilities, extensive graphics, both at the input and output stages, small memory requirements, fast execution times and an extensive library of basic and standard converter configurations both of the phase-commutated and forced-commutated types. Such a package has been succesfully used in research and development work, mainly for PWM inverter analysis and design, and more recently as a training tool in power electronics and converter technology. |
