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Application background Multilevel inverter (MI) topologies can work at higher voltage and higher power than
conventional two-level converters. In addition, multilevel conversion reduces the output
variables harmonic distortion and, sometimes, in spite of the devices-count increment, the
conversion losses can also decrease by increasing the number of levels. The harmonic
distortion reduction achieved by increasing the number of levels, can be used to further
reducing the switching losses by decreasing the inverter carrier frequencies. To reduce even
more the switching frequency without degrading output spectrum, we control the triangular
carrier waveforms slopes.
First, to achieve this target, two analytical models have been created in order to predict the
inverter output voltage spectrum, depending on diverse parameters: the amplitude modulation
index MA, the voltage distribution K of the inverter