A high step-up converter, derived from the traditional forward converter, is presented herein, which uses an active clamping circuit to recycle the energy stored in the leakage inductance so as to reduce the voltage stress on the power switch. As compared with the traditional forward converter, the proposed converter, without the active clamping circuit considered, actually uses only one additional component so as to make the voltage conversion ratio improved greatly. In the thesis, the basis operating principles and mathematical deductions of the proposed converter are described in detail, and sequentially some simulated and experimental results are provided to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of such a converter. In addition, the filed-programmable gate array (FPGA), named EP1C3T100C8N made by Altera Co., is used as a system control kernel.