Design issues in power electronic building block (PEBB) system integration

Author

Kornegay, Kevin T.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

16-17 Apr 1998

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

52

Abstract

The Power Electronic Building Block (PEBB) concept is to develop a general purpose power controller capable of performing numerous electrical conversion functions simply through software reconfiguration. It is also intended to facilitate greater modularity in power electronic systems. However, realization of PEBB systems is a non-trivial endeavor because of electromagnetic interference, thermal management, packaging, and technological barriers. In this paper, we present these barriers along with some solutions

Keywords

electromagnetic interference; modules; packaging; power electronics; EMI; electrical conversion functions; electromagnetic interference; general purpose power controller; packaging; power electronic building block system integration; software reconfiguration; thermal management; Analog computers; Computer interfaces; Costs; Electromagnetic interference; Environmental economics; Power generation economics; Power system economics; Switches; Thyristors; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI '98. System Level Design. Proceedings. IEEE Computer Society Workshop on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8448-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWV.1998.667114

Filename

667114