| Based upon the authors' experience designing power electronics courses, SPICE for Power Electronics and Electric Power, Second Edition integrates a SPICE simulator with a power electronics course at a junior or senior level. This textbook assumes no prior knowledge of SPICE and introduces the applications of various SPICE commands through numerous examples of power electronic circuits. The authors emphasize the techniques for power conversions and for quality output waveforms, rather than accurate modeling of power semiconductor devices. This textbook enables students to compare the results with those obtained in a classroom environment with simple switch models or devices.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics
Unique, practical book that shows how to use SPICE for power electronics and electric power as a tool for design verification and a theoretical laboratory bench.
Power electronics is normally offered as a technical elective. It is an applicationoriented and interdisciplinary course that requires a background in mathematics, electrical circuits, control systems, analog and digital electronics, microprocessors, electric power, and electrical machines.
The understanding of the operation of a power electronics circuit requires a clear knowledge of the transient behavior of current and voltage waveforms for each and every circuit element at every instant of time.
These features make power electronics a difficult course for students to understand and for professors to teach. A laboratory helps in understanding power electronics and its control interfacing circuits. Development of a power electronics laboratory is relatively expensive compared to other courses in power electronics–electronic power (EE) curriculum. Power electronics is playing a key role in industrial power control. |
