Introduction to Digital Power Conversion 
  XMC4000/1000 Family 
 
  Converter Topologies 
Application Guide  23  V1.0, 2015-01 
     
3.6  Generic Digital Power Converter 
There is a mutual property of all DC/DC power converters: Energy from an input  power source is 
periodically  stored  as  magnetic  energy  in  the  air-gap  of  inductors  (L),  and  converted  into  certain 
output power voltage-current pairs via some rectifier-and-capacitor (C) filter configuration. 
Because of this property, the essential components and control loops for Switch Mode DC/DC power 
converters can be described by a “Generic DC/DC Converter” that is representative for all topologies 
of this type.  
 
Figure 11  The Generic Switch Mode DC/DC Converter. 
 
Key Attributes 
  Generic hardware protocol  
  Flexible Drive and Sense Interfaces for Feed-Back Loop Control of Voltage and Current Transfers  
  Modular Loop Control by Event Interconnection Paths between XMC Embedded Unit Functions 
  Global Start and Synchronization Features