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Professional Educational Seminars

I. Course Description

1. Five (5) meetings of 6.5 hours each (11:00 to 17:50) once every two weeks (approximately 25 lecture hours net).

2. Lectures will be given at Nemic-Lambda facility in Karmiel or Hertzlia

3. A handout file will be distributed to attendees before lectures

4. Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in electronics, at least HANDESAI level or equivalent experience

II. Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Inductor, PWM, the average concept

3. Basic topologies, CCM, DCM

4. Switched capacitor converters

5. Basic magnetics design

6. Isolated converters (forward and Flyback)

7. Simulation tools (only time domain is covered in this seminar)

8. Practical inductors, capacitors, diodes, power switches, Losses and Efficiency

9. Output Voltage Ripple, Parasitic Effects, RC Snubbers

10. Advanced topologies (HB, FB, PP, C’uk, SEPIC)

11. Introduction to soft switching

12. Drivers

13. Current sensing

Basics of control techniques

Control Design of PWM Converters: The User Friendly Approach