Power electronics building block and system integration

The power electronics building block (PEBB) concept is an integrated systems approach to standardize power electronics components and packaging techniques in the form of interchangeable subassemblies and modules. This paper presents the overview of this concept and some of the issues such as the soft-switching techniques for the PEBBs, the packaging approaches, the communication among the PEBBs, and the system-level compatibility. One of the research prototype systems is also demonstrated in this paper.