Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2003
The aim of this paper is to model the printed connections in static power converters. An analytical technique, based on the transmission line theory has been proposed previously (Labarre et al., Eur. Phys. J. AP 3, 169 (1998)). This papershows that this modeling technique, named the thin wire method (TWM) is well adapted topredict the behaviour of various configuration of printed circuit board with a ground plane:isolated microstrip lines exhibiting a constant or not width, parallel or non-parallel linesof any length. New analytical formulas are proposed in any layout configuration. However,the total circuit modeling needs to combine the features of different electromagneticmodels: MTL, PEEC, CTL with a numerical technique: the two dimensional transmission linematrix method (TLM2D).