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This paper proposes a soft switching nonisolated dc/dc interleaved converter incorporating coupled inductors and switched capacitors for high step-up applications. The converter integrates the interleaved structure and winding-cross-coupled inductors technique to reduce current stress of semiconductor devices and diminish the input current ripple considerably. In addition, the interleaved converter has the automatic current sharing characteristic. The applied zero voltage transition cell provides soft switching in a wide range of load variations with a minimum number of elements. In this topology, all semiconductor devices are soft switched, having eliminated switching losses and alleviating the reverse recovery problem of the output diodes. In addition, the voltage stress across the switches is very low. The theoretical analysis and design procedure of the introduced topology are presented. Also, the proposed converter is compared to the latest similar soft switched high step-up converters. The accuracy of the theoretical analysis is validated by a 200-W prototype operating at 100 kHz. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]