In this thesis, a novel single-phase three-switch AC/AC converter is proposed. The proposed converter consists of three power switches, three capacitors and two inductors. Based on the generalized zero vector (GZV) control strategy, the proposed converter has several advantages such as single stage control, input unity power factor, sinusoidal input/output current, energy regeneration, and low cost etc.. Besides, a fully digital control TMS320F2812 digital signal processor (DSP) and VisSim simulation program are adopted to implement the control circuit. Finally, some experimental results are presented to verify the feasibility of the proposed converter.