1) The document describes a two level voltage source converter (VSC) that can operate as either a rectifier or inverter using carrier-based sinusoidal pulse width modulation (PWM) or space vector modulation (SVM) control techniques.
2) The two level VSC consists of six switches that can be IGBTs or MOSFETs with anti-parallel diodes, allowing bidirectional power flow between the DC and AC sides.
3) Sinusoidal PWM compares a triangular carrier signal to three-phase modulating waves to generate switching pulses for the converter switches, while SVM represents the converter states as space vectors to calculate switching times.