Design Automation is of increasing importance for the Power Electronics community to obtain higher efficiencies and more compact designs at lowest costs. Main challenges of power electronics designs especially in highly integrated systems are related to multi-physics interactions, shorter design time and multi-parameter and multi-objective optimization. Design automation techniques can help to optimize power electronics systems in efficiency, size, thermal performance, EMI performance and costs, and to identify and understand the design limits imposed by the currently available technologies. Following an initial ECPE Expert Discussion in 2019, a follow up discussion revisiting the topic was held in February of 2023, bringing experts together from both the ECPE and IEEE PELS TC10 networks. Invited speakers kickstarted discussions on a number of identified topics, highlighting some synergies to be explored in future workshops and discussions.

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