The Increasing Role of Design Automation in Power Electronics: Gathering What Is Needed

The second Design Automation for Power Electronics (DAPE) workshop was held in the beautiful historical city of Genova, Italy, on 6 September 2019. This was one day after the successful European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE ECCE). With approximately 40 participants and a nice mix of industry and academic affiliations, the workshop provided outstanding presentations covering the wide field of design automation for power electronics. A very novel exchange of views was performed by breakout sessions, and the use of online voting technology to rapidly poll the attendees on prepared questions of interest in DA provided valuable information.