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A New Software for Investigating the Function and Modeling the Non-isolated DC–DC Switching Converters

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The present study proposes a software program with a GUI graphic setting based on the capabilities of MATLAB and PSpice software packages for describing and modeling the function of non-isolated DC-DC converters, which are of high importance for students of electrical engineering. In the light of its simple user interface, the proposed program can make a considerable contribution to educating the modeling of non-isolated basic switching convertors, investigating their function, and simulating their time and frequency domains. Accordingly, it makes it possible to observe the effects of load variations, input voltage variations, convertor element values, and tolerances on the function of convertors. Also, the software can automatically build convertor models in MATLAB and their equivalent electronic circuit in PSpice. Thus, the function of convertors can be studied by the MATLAB model and comparing the results to the electronic circuit simulation results in PSpice. Ease of use and avoiding the user involvement in the software, on the one hand, and the ability of complete modeling of non-isolated DC-DC convertors to help engineers design controllers for convertors and observe the results, on the other hand, are the most important features of the proposed software program.

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This work is supported by Technical and Vocational University, Tehran, Iran [Grant Number 25/400/96/173].

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Our research work was performed in Rasht branch of the Technical and Vocational University (TVU) and was in part supported by a grant from Technical and Vocational University, Tehran, Iran (No. 25/400/96/173).

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    Mohammadreza Modabbernia, Reza Golab, Alireza Akoushideh & Kazem Ghorbani

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Modabbernia, M., Golab, R., Akoushideh, A. et al. A New Software for Investigating the Function and Modeling the Non-isolated DC–DC Switching Converters. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. B 103, 13–28 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40031-021-00628-z

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