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Large supply bouncing due to the fast switching current and parasitic inductance of the supply rail may cause reliability and electromagnetic interference (EMI) problems, especially for ICs with the pulse-width modulation (PWM) technique, such as switching DC-DC converters. In this paper, a new slew-rate controlled (SRC) output stage is proposed to appropriately increase the rise and fall times of...
DC/DC conversion has been an integral part of the power delivery chain in energy harvesting systems because the conventionally targeted synchronous computation load demands stable Vdd, which cannot in general be supplied by power harvesters directly. However, asynchronous computation loads, in addition to their potential power-saving capabilities, can be made tolerant to a much wider range of Vdd...
Power continuity is maintained to critical loads in shipboard DC distribution systems by diode auctioneering the outputs of DC/DC power converters fed from separate main DC buses. In order to minimize the size/weight of power conversion non-isolated three-level buck converters are used to convert voltage from a higher main bus voltage level (typically 1000VDC) to lower ship load DC voltages (i.e....
In this paper, a novel active clamp Flyback-Forward converter is proposed for large voltage gain and high power applications. The interleaved configuration on the primary side is employed to handle the large input current. An improved voltage doubler configuration is adopted on the secondary side to make the output diodes sustain only half of the high output voltage. Furthermore, the output diode...
Single Boost converter has several limitations in driving a long LED string although it can have perfect current match between each LED. Extreme duty cycle and low efficiency are the two major drawbacks. In this paper, a high efficiency step-up DC-DC converter with high voltage gain for LED backlighting applications is proposed. Without using a transformer, a multi-modes charge-pump is cascaded with...
The LLC resonant converter topology enables high DC-DC conversion efficiency and has been recently adopted for power supplies in several application areas. In this paper a method for overcurrent protection of the LLC resonant converter is proposed, which avoids a reduction of the hold-up time resulting from the application of the protection scheme. The discussion covers the operation principle, design...
A novel single-switch three-level (TL) converter is proposed for dimmable LED lighting. Compared with standard TL converters, the proposed topology not only maintains the advantage of using a lower voltage rating power switch that is rated half the input voltage, but also eliminates one active switch and its associated driving circuit. Moreover, it can naturally solve the voltage stress imbalance...
Minimization of the dc capacitor is an essential step towards developing and manufacturing compact low-cost hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) converter/inverter systems for high temperature operation, long life and high reliability. Previously, most papers have been focused on the AC-DC-AC pulse-width modulation (PWM) converters with relatively complicated close-loop control methods, while few papers...
This paper reports the implementation of high voltage step-up converters in standard 130nm 1.2V CMOS technology. Two hybrid boost converters have been fabricated and are compared, each of which are enabled by the development of enhanced high voltage devices for the standard process: Schottky diodes and stacked NMOS switches. Each device can sustain blocking voltages near 10V or greater in the 1.2V...
This paper proposes a bidirectional multilevel dc-dc converter for applications that require high voltage gain. Some of conventional multilevel dc-dc converters have diverse voltage or current stresses for the switching devices within the circuit, not suitable for modular configuration or for high efficiency demand; some suffer from relatively high power loss or large device count for high voltage...
This paper introduces a designer-side switching loss analysis characterized by evaluating parasitic capacitor's energy variation and related losses for integrated synchronous Buck converters in CMOS technology (ISBC). After categorizing losses related to power FET parasitic capacitors' charging/discharging currents as charging/discharging losses (C_loss), it is noticed that the ratio of charging/discharging...
High switching frequencies (several MHz) allow the integration of low power DC/DC converters. Although, in theory, a high switching frequency would make possible to implement a conventional voltage mode control with very high bandwidth, in practice, parasitic effects and robustness make very complex to achieve bandwidths higher than 1MHz. This paper proposes a fast control technique to optimize the...
The growing demand for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) has increased the need for high-temperature electronics that can operate at the extreme temperatures that exist under the hood. This paper presents a high-voltage, high-temperature SOI-based gate driver for SiC FET switches. The gate driver is designed and implemented on a 0.8-micron BCD on SOI process. This gate driver chip is intended to drive...
The future renewable electric energy delivery and management (FREEDM) system provides a DC interface for alternative energy sources. As a result, photovoltaic (PV) energy can be easily delivered through a DC/DC converter to the FREEDM system's DC bus, without the requirement of an additional DC/AC inverter. For this PV converter, the module integrated converter (MIC) is a good candidate. In this paper,...
A new soft-switching PWM full-bridge converter is proposed in this paper. The proposed converter has zero voltage switching (ZVS) in all its switches with fewer conduction losses than other ZVS-PWM full-bridge converters, due to a novel auxiliary circuit scheme. In the paper, the operation of the proposed converter is explained in detail, its features and design are discussed, and experimental results...
This paper describes the analysis and design of a DC-DC converter topology which is operational at frequencies in the Very High Frequency (VHF) band ranging from 30 MHz-300 MHz. The presented topology, which consists of a class E inverter, class E rectifier, and self-oscillating gate driver, is inherently resonant, and switching losses are greatly reduced by ensuring Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) of...
An isolated bi-directional full-bridge soft-switching dc-dc converter with high conversion ratio, high output power, soft start-up and soft-switching capability for battery charging/discharging is proposed in this paper. The use of an active flyback and two passive capacitor-diode snubbers can alleviate the voltage spike caused by the current difference between the leakage inductance of the transformer...
Signal integrity and associated optimization techniques in power delivery network for multi-core processors, whether powered by a single converter or several power converters, are discussed. The high integration of the multi-core processors on a single die makes chipset's sensitivity to crosstalk noise more likely. Several power converters in a multi-core processor system could improve energy efficiency...
This paper presents several single-phase non-isolated semi-Z-source inverters for small distributed power generator in grid-connected applications with low cost and doubly grounded features. These semi-Z-source inverters employ the Z-source/quasi-Z-source network and only two active switches to achieve the same output voltage as the traditional voltage-fed full-bridge inverter. The two active switches...
In this paper, a practical analog implementation of capacitor charge balance controller is presented, which is capable of achieving the optimal response for dc-dc Buck converters without relying on the knowledge of the nominal passive component (output inductor and capacitor) value. This ready-for-integration analog controller applies the output voltage curve analysis for deriving the formulas to...
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