Design of a flexible control platform for soft-switching multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1778-1785

  Köllensperger, Peter ^a   Lenke, Robert U ^a   Schröder, Stefan ^a   De Doncker, Rik W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auxiliary resonant commutated pole (ARCP) topologies; Diode clamped multilevel (DCML) inverter; Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Neutral point clamped (NPC) topologies; Pulsewidth modulation (PWM) inverter

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

AUXILIARY RESONANT COMMUTATED POLE (ARCP) TOPOLOGIES; DIODE-CLAMPED-MULTILEVEL (DCML) INVERTER; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED (NPC) TOPOLOGIES; PULSEWIDTH MODULATION (PWM) INVERTER; SOFT-SWITCHING MULTILEVEL INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 34548775909     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.904216     Document Type: Article

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