ABSTRACT & BIOGRAPHY
Power Electronics Design Automation Tools: Steps towards Realization
Abstract:
The methods employed in designing power systems must be reconsidered as new semiconductor devices and technologies continue to proliferate. Modern design engineers are faced with an accelerating growth in power electronics applications, yet their ranks do not scale at the same rate. Compounding this, the traditional design flow for components and converters follows highly iterative, manual, intensive, and time-consuming cycles. The neighboring field of VLSI solved many of these problems by developing electronic design automation (EDA) tools in the 80s. This short course will explore ways in which EDA tools for power electronics are beginning to introduce new design flows—exploring more possibilities in shorter time. Also addressed will be ways to improve quality and quantity of component data and better ways to distribute it among trusted partners so that machine learning and AI-driven design techniques can be fully realized.
Biography:
Dr. Evans has over 15 years of experience in the field of power electronics—pursuing research topics focused on semiconductor packaging, characterization, modeling, and module design. Since 2023 he has been a member of PE-Systems where he and his colleagues are bringing design automation techniques to the field of power electronics through automated measurement and data management coupled with the development of design and modeling software tools. Earlier he worked in the R&D department of ROHM Semiconductor at their headquarters in Kyoto. Most recently he was awarded a PhD from the University of Arkansas in Electrical Engineering where he researched power converter synthesis techniques.
