A Review of Design Methodologies for Power Electronics and the Bridge to VLSI EDA

Research in design automation for power electronics (DAPE) is a growing subject propelled by the demand for power electronics in the light of electrification. This paper explains and transfers concepts found in microelectronics EDA to DAPE. A broad literature analysis via automated rule-based classification of more than 6 000 publications shows the dominant automation approaches in connection with popular tasks to automate, the focused components and respective applications. Besides this content analysis, an analysis over time provides insight into past and current trends. The paper concludes with a comparison to EDA found in analog IC design to outline possible future research directions in DAPE.