For analyzing reliability or short-term overload conditions of power electronic systems, it is necessary to know transient temperatures of the power semiconductors. Directly coupling thermal and circuit simulators increases the simulation time by orders of magnitude, therefore making such an approach impractical. A well-known solution to this problem is to extract thermal equivalent circuits from 3D-field simulations and to insert them ...

Modern lectures in power electronics should be complemented by interactive content, e.g. computer assisted learning via web-based applets or exercises employing a circuit simulator. The online e-learning system “iPES” was established in 2001; since then the iPES Java applets are frequently used in academia and industry to teach the basics of power electronics. This paper introduces new features of the open-source power electronics circuit ...