An effective design method for high power density converters

Energy Semiconductor Electronics Research Laboratory in AIST has developed an integration design methodology for high power density converters. A part of this work, a novel converter loss estimation method based on power converter platform concept was proposed. The proposed method estimates the converter loss exactly under real circuit operation condition, by taking the correlation among converter parameters into account. The availability of the proposed method was shown, and the design consideration was carried out for the power conditioner of the photovoltaic solar generation.