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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Converter Control by University of Colorado Boulder

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About the Course

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5702, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. This course teaches how to design a feedback system to control a switching converter. The equivalent circuit models derived in the previous courses are extended to model small-signal ac variations. These models are then solved, to find the important transfer functions of the converter and its regulator system. Finally, the feedback loop is modeled, analyzed, and designed to meet requirements such as output regulation, bandwidth and transient response, and rejection of disturbances. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to design and analyze the feedback systems of switching regulators. This course assumes prior completion of courses Introduction to Power Electronics and Converter Circuits....

Top reviews

WG

Feb 10, 2020

I am really happy taking this course. Challenging but the course really well structured so it helps a lot! My learning curve taking this course is huge. Thank you Prof. Erickson and team!

PC

Jun 25, 2016

The analysis and materials of this course are very useful. A great section. If the MATLAB script for calculating the converter Poles and Zeros can be provided will be even better.

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By Miguel B A

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Oct 2, 2016

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By Vaishakh V

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Mar 16, 2016

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By Saar B

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Nov 16, 2020

good practical course which give a unique insight in Switch mode control system.

the professor POV shows that a simple graphical construction of the transfer function can be sufficient and reduce the complexity otherwise needed to gain the same insight using exact computation.

furthermore a step by step explanation of how to contract a practical PID compensator is given .

I wish that the course would also contain a compensator explanation referring to the isolated (Flyback forward) converter using more practical topology (the control loop is isolated also).

By Kaushik M

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Aug 12, 2020

The course was exceptional. I found this course assignments more interesting than the assignments corresponding to course 1 and 2. Overall a good way to understand the design aspects of Power Converters. Thanks to Dr.Erickson and his team.

I would also like to add that I have read Dr. Erickson's book- Fundamentals of Power Converters during my undergraduate studies, it was the most phenomenal book I have ever read to date.

By Andrew W

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Apr 4, 2021

Nice overview of converter controls. One gets a lot more out of this course with some background knowledge related to classical feedback control.

If you want to get something out of this course, plan to take a lot more time (than advertised) to complete the assignments.

By Pouria M

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Jul 22, 2022

It was a great and useful course in overall, but some parts of it was so hard to understand deeply. perhaps it could be better if this course focused more on the basic control theory. still I can't deny the value of this course, I learnt a lot of things

By Sayantan G

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Nov 19, 2020

Along with the asymptotic bode plot it could have been nice if bode plot thru simulation could have been introduced with the help of Matlab/python (preferably python, as its open source tool)

By Maximilian Z

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May 4, 2017

Unfortunately this course did not include the discussion feature as the previous two courses. This means if you get stuck there is no way of asking for help. Fortunately I managed.

By David C

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Apr 27, 2021

Very interesting way of looking at ac circuit analysis from a graphical perspective. Makes visualizing the ac variations in switch mode power supplies less complex.

By Elyka A

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Jun 2, 2016

Very good!

I think week 4 was very time consuming, in contrast with week 3, that was very light. Maybe these contents can be better balanced in the fuute.

By Jacky H

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Feb 11, 2018

I spent enormous amount of time figuring out some assignment questions. Hope the idea of these practices makes sense in the industry.

By Andrew T

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Mar 19, 2017

Great material however discussion forums is dead (despite hundreds of views), mentors are unresponsive to questions

By Alexis_314159

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May 10, 2016

Great content.

Need more exercises, and solution to homeworks (eventually).

By inico i

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Jan 18, 2022

Excellent course. In my opinion, a huge lack of practice exercices, though

By Jehan A L

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Jun 30, 2017

The explanation was clear and valuable I enjoyed very much

By Philipp M

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Sep 17, 2017

the learning material is very much and it is tough to get through the homeworks.

Expecially weeks 1 and 2 are mixed which makes it difficult to solve the first homework. As soon as you watch the first lectures of week 2, you wonder why that wasn't tought in the lectures of week 1.

Nevertheless, I still like the course and keep getting progress although I nearly have no preknowledge about the topic. I use the course to get some basic knowledge about this topic

By Rajat J

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Apr 3, 2016

PWM Switch modelling and use of that to simplify converter modelling not covered in detail.

More theoretical. Intuition on the models that we derive is not there.

By Mohamed E M

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May 15, 2020

i dont feel that i can use what i ve learned in this course to design a modern SMPS, it feels outdated but nonetheless i learned some basics of control theroy

By Manish K S

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Jul 13, 2020

Assignments should be more formula based rather than giving exact numerical values with 0.1% accuracy. The 0.1% accuracy is very disturbing .

By Akira Y

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Apr 12, 2016

Contents are excellent.

The only disappointing is that It costs to submit assignments.

By victor g

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Jul 21, 2017

Great technological course on low power DC/DC converters.

By Carlos A

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Mar 16, 2016

No me parece adecuado que en un curso de este tipo los problemas sólo se corrijan si pagas (cuando lo hace el ordenador)

By Sagnik D

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Jun 3, 2020

Very tough