This lecture will discuss figures of merit for power switching devices.

This lecture will discuss a switching loss called overlap loss.

This lecture will discuss switching loss that comes from energy stored in parasitic capacitance and inductance.

This lecture will discuss the concept of reverse recovery.

This lecture will discuss the concept of soft switching.

This lab will look at the Boost converter to see how it behaves near the boundary conduction mode.

This lecture will discuss driving high capacitance in the gate of a power MOSFET.

This lecture will discuss deliver power to gate drivers for high-side devices.

This lecture will discuss how to level shift digital signals to high-side device gate drivers.

This lecture will discuss the layout of the gate driver and gate resistance.

This lecture will discuss how to choose a gate driver.

This lab will review measuring gate voltages.

This lecture will discuss different physical mechanisms by which heat escapes from power dissipating elements in a power converter.

This lecture will discuss modeling thermal analysis scenarios using circuits.

This lecture will discuss thermal dynamics.

This lecture will discuss heat sinking and isolation, which are the design aspects of thermal management for a power converter.

This lecture will discuss the thermal aspects of printed circuit boards (PCBs) and vias.

This lab will discuss thermal runaway.

This lecture will introduce the capacitor module by going over some of the uses cases for capacitors and the important specification for those application.