**5.3. Experimental validation**

Simulations and experimental waveforms related to figure 15 are shown in figure 17. The simulation parameters are adjusted as follows:

$$\text{U}\_{\text{RMS}} = 230 \text{ V} \text{ }; \text{R} = 58 \text{ }\Omega \text{ }; \text{L} \text{ = 800 } \mu\text{H }; \text{L}^{\circ} = 800 \text{ mH }.$$

It can be seen that the simulated waveforms are very close to the experimental ones. The overlap interval 1 is equivalent for simulation and experimental results (<sup>1</sup> 0.7 ms).

The list of configuration parameters used for Matlab simulation is:


Using a PC with an Intel core 2 duo CPU running at 2.19 GHz with 1 Go de RAM, the simulation time was 4 s.

This model has also been tested with a load constituted of an inverter and an induction machine. The results of this test have validated operations for discontinuous conduction mode. For the same configuration parameters, the simulation time was 5 s.
