This presentation is a brief introduction about how to specify design, layout and test high power converters required for electron accelerator facilities. The presentation starts by defining requirements of a converter i.e.: A Dipole power supply and moves onward to designing, layout and testing stages.

• Specifying a power converter scheme
  • Global consideration
  • Extracting electrical requirements from beam parameter
• Designing the converter
  • Topology selection vs Power
  • Old vs New trend in accelerator industry
  • Specifying electrical components
  • Protection circuity
  • Control loop design (i.e. Lead+PI compensator)
  • Low level electronics design issues
  • Thermal analysis
• Layout consideration
  • PCB lay and EMC consideration
  • Signal transportation and Common mode voltages
  • Racks designing and 3D modeling
• Testing
  • Stability
  • Efficiency
  • Current / Voltage Ripple
  • Bandwidth
  • Repeatability
    • Reproducibility
    • Linearity
    • EMC
    • Rigidness i.e. Surge and Burst tests