A Plug and Play Power Electronics Education Board for Hands-on Learning of Power Converters Incorporating WBG Semiconductor

This paper presents the development of a plug-and-play (PP from switching characteristic analysis of different semiconductor devices to control of different power converters such as basic DC-DC and DC-AC converters and isolation-type DC-DC converters. This helps students to get familiar with the system/subsystem-level design of power converters and experience the impact of WBG devices compared to Si-based one. The system design considerations are discussed, and the fabricated hardware and its experiments are presented.