A New 7-Level Symmetric Multilevel Inverter with Minimum Number of Switches

Table 7

Comparison of proposed 7-level mli with other mlis.

Inbuilt structure	Flying capacitor	Diode clamped	Cascaded; 7-level	7-level,; 9 switches	7-level,; 7 switches	7-level,; 6 switches	Proposed; 7-level,; 5 switches
No. of capacitors	14	6	—	—	—	—	—
No. of diodes	—	≥8	—	—	—	—	—
No. of switches	10	10	12	9	7	6	5*
No. of DC sources	—	—	3	3	3	4	4*