Switching strategy for integral cycle converter in a high frequency AC distributed power system

In high frequency AC distributed power systems, the integral cycle converter (ICC) can efficiently synthesize low frequency AC or DC output from the high frequency link by means of soft switching. However for the ICC to operate as a local power module supplying the load, the synthesized voltage will need to be filtered to extract only the desired low frequency component. The presence of a filter network imposes additional constraints on the switching of the power transistors. A new switching strategy is proposed that allows minimal switching losses without loss of flexibility in the synthesis of the desired output waveform. The proposed solution can be implemented in the gating logic stage of the converter leaving the controller module unrestricted on the choice of control implementation.