<正> I.INTRODUCTIONToday, there is a growing trend to-ward power electronics integration. Inmost cases, this trend is technologydriven and for a given application, gainin terms of cost, reliability or manufactura-bility are often not achieved. As manu-facturing quality and stability dependstrongly on the production volumes, it isdifficult to setup a production line for in-tegrated power electronics for medium tohigh power applications (here defined as