V. CONCLUSION
The small-signal modeling approach proposed for dc-dc converters based on the 3SSC in CCM has proven to be a simple and straightforward technique, considering that the analysis is strictly carried out from the point of view of electric circuits. It has been show that it is able to represent the topologies operating in both operating modes i.e. NOM and OM, which can be typically found in 3SSC-based structures. A 3SSC dc-dc buck converter has been analyzed in detail, whose model has been properly validated comparing the Bode plots of the theoretical model with the ones obtained by simulation. It is worth to mention that the derived transfer functions are strictly important for the closed-loop operation of the converters. Besides, it has been proven that the resulting expressions are exactly the same ones valid for the conventional buck converter operating in CCM. Finally, it can be stated that the aforementioned modeling technique can easily be extended to other 3SSC converters, thus allowing the development of their respective small-signal models with few mathematical manipulations if compared to the average state-space technique.