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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS—I: REGULAR PAPERS, VOL. 55, NO. 11, DECEMBER 2008 3733 Fundamental Considerations of Three-Level DC–DC Converters: Topologies, Analyses, and Control Xinbo Ruan, Senior Member, IEEE, Bin Li, Member, IEEE, Qianhong Chen, Member, IEEE, Siew-Chong Tan, Member, IEEE, and Chi K. Tse, Fellow, IEEE Abstract— This paper discusses the basic family of three-level provides three levels of voltages, the NPC inverter is also called TL dc–dc converters. The origin of TL converters and their TL inverter. An additional advantage of the TL inverter is that basic topological variations are described. Systematic procedures the voltage stress of the switches is reduced to half of the input leading to improved and simpli?ed circuit topologies are dis- cussed. A feedforward control scheme that ensures the proper voltage, which makes it suitable for high input voltage power functioning of these converters is proposed. Moreover, the virtues conversions [6]. and drawbacks of these converters as compared to conventional This technique has been applied to dc–dc converters by converters are highlighted. In particular, the advantages of TL Pinheiro and Barbi [7], [8] to reduce the voltage stress of the converters include reduced voltage stress of the switches, reduced ?lter size, and improved dynamic response. It is shown that TL switches. It should be emphasized that the application of the converters are highly suitable for high input/output voltage and technique does not create a TL voltage state in the case of medium-to-high-power dc–dc power conversions. dc–dc converters. Nevertheless, since the phase leg of this Index Terms—DC–DC power conversion, feedforward control, dc–dc converter is similar to that of the TL inverter, i.e., having full-bridge FB converter, interleaved control, three-level TL four switches, two dividing capaci