A different inductor cell for AC multilevel current generation

DC/AC converters are widely used in several applications; traditionally they can be classified in two types: the voltage source inverters (VSI) and the current source inverters (CSI). Their use depends on the application; however some of them are common for both types of converters. Other possibility for the DC/AC conversion is the multilevel configuration, there have been proposed different topologies for multilevel current source inverter (MCSI); in this paper is proposed a different inductor cell to produce more levels with less components. The operation and simulation results are shown.