This paper describes the developments at the University of Minnesota of new approach in teaching of Electric drives, focusing on the associate state-of-the-art laboratory. The mission of these developments is to nationally revitalize courses in industrially and strategically vital fields of electric drives (and power electronics [7]). This is accomplished by making these courses appealing to students (undergraduate enrollments have significantly

Space-Vector Pulse Width Modulation (SV-PWM) is a well-known modulation strategy in electric drives (also used in power electronics). However, a simple explanation of its analysis and its hardware implementation is lacking, which is the focus of this paper.