%A Saad Mekhilef %A Masoud A. %J Engineering e-Transaction %T Xilinx FPGA Based Multilevel PWM Single Phase Inverter %X In this paper a XILINX FPGA based multilevel PWM single-phase inverter was constructed by adding a bi-directional switchs to the conventional bridge topology. The inverter can produce three and five different output voltage levels across the load. XILINX FPGA is a programmable logic device developed by XILINX which is considered as an efficient hardware for rapid prototyping. It is used as a PWM generator to apply the appropriate signals to inverter switches. In addition to XILINX FPGA, Matlab/Simulink software was used for simulation and verification of the proposed circuit before implementation, Simulation and experimental results show that both are in close agreement %N 2 %K Xilinx FPGA; single phase inverter %P 40-45 %V 1 %D 2006 %I Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya %L myais653