Course Overview
For a student of electrical engineering or for a practicing electrical technician, getting started with simulating electrical circuits can be challenging. Even more so in the case of power electronics where circuits are non-linear. This course introduces the process of simulation and also provides basic theory lectures to help you understand how simulations can be used to learn how power converters work.
This course uses only free and open source software. The course will have lectures to show you how to download and install each software. All software are compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS and you can follow this course whatever operating system you prefer to use. The course also has a basic tutorial on Python programming to help you with writing control code for electrical circuits. The course uses the free and open source circuit simulator Python Power Electronics. You can use other simulators if you are already using them. However, all examples in this course will use Python Power Electronics as I would like all students registered for the course to be able to access a circuit simulator and not all simulators are free to use.
This course is not a comprehensive course on power electronics. I will not be covering a vast number of power converters. Instead, this course focuses on depth. The lectures will have code along sessions where I will be building simulations from scratch and will be switching back and forth between theory presentations and simulation results to understand how circuits work. The course will not be heavily mathematical but on the contrary will use fundamental concepts of Physics to understand how power converter circuits.
In order to successfully complete this course, a student is required to have some basic electrical knowledge. This implies basic network laws - Kirchoff's Voltage Law, Kirchoff's Current Law, Ohm's Law. These would be taught in first year of electrical engineering. Other than that, you do not need to have prior knowledge of power electronics or analog electronics. A student will also be required to have some basic knowledge of programming. This course uses Python. However, if a student has used any other high level language such as C, C++, Java etc, that would do as well. Expert knowledge of programming is not necessary. This course however, should not be a student's very first time coding.
Course notes
Course name |
Simulating Power Electronic Circuits Using Python |
Start & end date |
Open for enrolment anytime
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Mode of delivery |
Online, recorded video lessons & self paced
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Software used |
Python, Python for power electronics, excel or any open source alternative to excel
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Course pre-requisites |
Basic electrical engineering (network laws) & basic programming in any high level language (Python, C, C++)
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Applicable for |
Students, Faculties or Industry professionals from the background of Electrical & Electronics engineering, who would like to gain the solid fundamentals & explore the approach to use Python to simulate power electronic circuits.
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Certification by & Host details |
Decibels Lab Pvt Ltd (Recognised as Start-up by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade Ministry of Commerce & Industry Government of India) (Certificate Number: DIPP45372)
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Course access duration |
90 days
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Doubt clarification |
It's 100% practical & self-paced, provided with a step-by-step guide to achieve the learning. For critical issues or doubts you face, you can fill your doubt in the Discussion box. Our team will clarify your doubts there itself.
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Course curriculum
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Welcome
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Introduction
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How to use Discussions option
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Concept of simulation
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Open source software in electrical engineering
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Python Power Electronics - an open source circuit simulator
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Target audience of the course
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Course access duration
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Piracy & infringement warning
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Overview
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Introduction to Anaconda Python
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Windows - installing Anaconda
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Linux/Mac - installing Anaconda
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Anaconda setup theory
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Windows - setting up the Anaconda environment
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Linux/Mac - setting up the Anaconda environment
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Setting up an environment for Python Power Electronics
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Changes to download links
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Windows - installing and setting up Python Power Electronics
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Linux/Mac - installing the dependencies for Python Power Electronics
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Linux/Mac - installing and setting up Python Power Electronics
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Windows - launching Python Power Electronics
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Linux/Mac - launching Python Power Electronics
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Editors for Python programming
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Conclusions
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Overview
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Choosing a circuit to simulate
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"Drawing " the circuit in a spreadsheet
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Rules for drawing circuits in spreadsheets
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Understanding the parameters of a simulation
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Creating a new simulation
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Adding a circuit schematic to the simulation
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Parameters of circuit components
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Editing the parameters of components in the simulation
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Running the simulation
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Backing up the parameters of the circuit
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Conclusions
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Introduction
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Magnetic field basics
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Electromagnents
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Inductors
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Induced EMF produced by inductors
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Inductors - laws and formulae
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Capacitors
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Capacitors - laws and formulae
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Comparing inductors and capacitors
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Conclusions
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Introduction
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Diodes
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Test circuit to examine the working of a diode
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Parameters of a diode
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When the diode is forward biased
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When the diode is reverse biased
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When an AC voltage is applied across the diode
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Concept of rectification
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Setting up the rectifier simulation
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Simulating the basic rectifier
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Analysis of the basic rectifier and the need for energy storage
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Adding a capacitor to the output
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Change in the operation of the rectifier with a capacitor at the output
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Analyzing the effect of addition of the capacitor
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Increasing the value of the capacitance and analyzing the result
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The need for an inductor as a current limiter and energy buffer
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Adding the inductor and analyzing the results
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Conclusions
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Overview
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Launching the interactive Jupyter notebook
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Integer data types
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Float data types
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String data types
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List data types
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Dictionary data types
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Iterable objects
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In-built functions available in Python
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User defined functions
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Conditionals
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Programming challenge
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About this course
- ₹2,999.00
- 112 lessons
- 18.5 hours of video content
Shivkumar Iyer
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