Introduction: Power Electronics, structure, applications. Power Semiconductor Devices: Diodes, SCRs, BJT, MOSFET and IGBT. Device ratings, Gate Driver Circuits, Snubber circuits. Reactive elements in power electronic circuits.

DC-DC Converters: Limitations of linear power supplies, Switched Mode Power Conversion, Switch realization, Non-isolated DC-DC Converters: Buck, Boost, Buck-boost, Cuk and SEPIC converters –operations in CCM and DCM, non-idealities.

Isolated DC-DC Converters: Flyback, Forward and Push-pull topologies.

Converter dynamics and Control: Modeling of DC-DC converters, Review of controller design in frequency domain, Controller design for single loop voltage feedback.

Input Filter design

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