The course deals with power electronic converters and their elements. The most important objects of the course are: general definitions and mathematical tools of power electronics, one-cycle and multi-cycle DC/DC converters, diode and thyristor rectifiers, autonomous inverters and some specific converters.
The course is concentrated on calculation of parameters of the power converters, choice of their passive elements and semiconductor switches, as well as on the cooling and protection of these switches. The course includes special lectures devoted to development of the power converter utilizing the corresponding modern integrated circuits. The practical part of the course includes numerically solved exercises, exercises of simulation of the power converters, laboratory exercises. The most active students are provided with opportunity to design, build and test one of the studied power converters utilizing one of the available integrated circuits.