Power electronics simulation: current progress and future development

The paper gives a comprehensive state-of-the-art technology review of power electronics simulation and design automation tools. New trends have been indicated whenever possible. In particular, the discussion is directed toward the development of a new generation of power electronic simulation and design tools. The techniques reviewed include: the state variable approach; nodal analysis; modified nodal analysis; and state space averaging simulation. The future trends discussed include: a unified multi-level mixed-level simulation framework; automatic generation of behaviour models; computer aided synthesis and optimisation design; and expert systems