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This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5702, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
This course teaches how to design a feedback system to control a switching converter. The equivalent circuit models derived in the previous courses are extended to model small-signal ac variations. These models are then solved, to find the important transfer functions of the converter and its regulator system. Finally, the feedback loop is modeled, analyzed, and designed to meet requirements such as output regulation, bandwidth and transient response, and rejection of disturbances.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to design and analyze the feedback systems of switching regulators.

This course assumes prior completion of courses Introduction to Power Electronics and Converter Circuits.

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Be able to design and analyze the feedback systems of switching regulators

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Approx. 19 hours to complete

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Dr. Robert Erickson

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Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

5 hours to complete

Ch 7: AC Equivalent Circuit Modeling

How to extend the converter steady-state equivalent circuits, derived in the previous courses, to obtain small-signal ac equivalent circuits that model the important converter and regulator system dynamics.

5 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 114 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

8 videos

Sect 7.1 Introduction to AC Modeling28m

Sects 7.2.1-4 Averaged AC Modeling8m

*Sect 7.2.2 Discussion of Averaging15m

Sect 7.2.5 Perturbation and Linearization17m

Sects 7.2.6-8 Construction of Equivalent Circuit11m

Sect 7.6 Modeling the Pulse-Width Modulator10m

Sect 7.5 The Canonical Model20m

Sect7.3 State-Space Averaging2m

1 reading

Homework 1 Materials5m

1 practice exercise

Homework Assignment 1: Chapter 73h

Week

Week 2

5 hours to complete

Ch 8: Converter Transfer Functions - Part 1

A review of the construction of Bode plots of the magnitude and phase of first-order, second-order, and higher-order transfer functions, with emphasis on techniques needed for design of regulator systems. Design-oriented analysis techniques to make approximations and gain insight into how to design ac systems having significant complexity.

5 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 112 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week

Week 3

4 hours to complete

Ch 8: Converter Transfer Functions - Part 2

Design-oriented analysis techniques to make approximations and gain insight into how to design ac systems having significant complexity. Graphical construction techniques.

4 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 79 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week

Week 4

5 hours to complete

Ch 9: Controller Design

Application of the material of Chapters 7 and 8 to design closed-loop regulators that employ switching converters. How to design a feedback system that accurately regulates its output while rejecting disturbances.

5 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 159 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

8 videos

9.1-2 Introduction21m

9.3 Construction of Closed-loop Transfer Functions10m

9.4.1 Stability21m

9.4.2 Phase Margin vs. Closed-loop Q20m

9.5 Regulator Design19m

9.5.4 Design Example18m

Op-amp Compensator Design29m

9.5.5 Another Example: Point-of-Load Regulator18m

1 reading

HW#4 Materials10m

2 practice exercises

Homework Assignment 4 (Part 1): Feedback1h

Homework Assignment 4 (Part 2): Closed-Loop Simulation50m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM CONVERTER CONTROL

by CJSep 26, 2016

I wish I should had done this course earlier. I obtained clear understanding on converter control basic concepts.

by ZRMay 13, 2020

This course has broadened my power electronics control view. If you are taking this course be sure to use the textbook also.

by NMJun 15, 2016

This is a great course to get a basic foundation of bode plot techniques and fundamental control theory in relation to power converter design.

by TGFeb 10, 2020

I am really happy taking this course. Challenging but the course really well structured so it helps a lot! My learning curve taking this course is huge. Thank you Prof. Erickson and team!

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