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This paper presents an improved phase leg power loop design for enhance mode lateral structure Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistors. Static characterization results of a 650V/30A GaN transistor are presented to determine the design parameters of the gate driver circuits. The control of Common Mode (CM) noise current propagation is considered during the gate driver design by optimizing the power distribution...
There has been a growing demand of using multi-function inverters for grid-connected systems applied to nonconventional energy sources, such as solar, wind and so on. In addition to power quality conditioning, the inverter can also be used for bidirectional active power exchange with a three-phase four-wire grid. Therefore, the inverter acts as a multi-function compensator. The functions of the proposed...
Since parabolic current control has fast transient response and high control precision with constant switching frequency, it is an attractive current control strategy for voltage source inverters. The employment of parabolic current control delivers great performance on current waveform control or voltage waveform control. The implementation of parabolic current control usually requires high speed...
The Inrush Transient Current (ITC) in the output of the photovoltaic grid-connected inverters is usually generated when grid voltage sag occurs, which can trigger the protection of the grid-connected inverters, and even destroy the semiconductor switches. Then, the grid-connected inverters will thus fail to ride through the voltage sag and even further cause more serious grid faults. This paper analyzes...
The use of a digital architecture in PWM controllers for point-of-load (POL) applications, together with system identification techniques, allows the development of fully automated routines for in-situ system performance optimization where controller parameters are specifically tailored to the application. In this context, this paper proposes a method for performing parametric system identification...
This paper presents a high accuracy and high bandwidth current sense circuit for digitally controlled DC-DC buck converters. The circuit uses lossless inductor DCR current sensing and a sigma delta modulator ADC to sense the average current in the inductor to high accuracy. These accurate but low bandwidth measurements are unsuitable for use in feedback control loops as their acquisition delay would...
Digital Active EMI Filtering (DAEF) technique is a new direction of conductive EMI suppression technologies for switched-mode power converters. However, the conventional DAEF topology only suppresses EMI to ground on the AC (or DC) ports. It doesn't definitely aim to Common Mode (CM) or Differential Mode (DM) EMI. In this paper, a novel DAEF topology is proposed. It can flexibly suppress CM and DM...
This paper describes the implementation of a second order sliding mode (SOSM) controller for a practical point-of-load (POL) power supply with realistic values of output capacitor equivalent series resistance (ESR) and equivalent series inductance (ESL). The SOSM control presented in this paper results in fast transient responses, has a current limiting feature, supports light load operation, and...
This paper introduces a high power density step-up converter for LED applications, based on a hybrid serial-output (HSO) architecture [1], which is suitable for on-chip implementation. In this system, the output voltage is formed by stacking the output of a switched-capacitor (SC) converter on top of a boost converter output. The high power density SC converter processes around a half of the power...
This paper presents a digital Active Gate Drive (AGD) methodology for power semiconductor devices. The inherent latency limitation of digital signal processing systems is addressed by a sequential optimization procedure that uses voltage and current signals recorded at the previous switching edge to develop an optimized gate drive waveform for the next switching edge. Experimental results using a...
In this paper, a novel adaptive synchronous rectification method for digitally controlled LLC converters is proposed. By sensing the synchronous rectifier (SR) body diode forward drop, both the SR turn-on and turn-off edges are optimized for efficiency. Negative current prevention is utilized to improve the system robustness and is enhanced by simple digital control capabilities. Compared with a conventional...
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed description of a technique that modifies the characteristics of analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The overall design objective for any power converter is to reduce the size, cost and power losses. In a digitally controlled system-on-chip (SoC) application, this results in a tradeoff between the performance and resolution of the ADC and digital PWM...
In this paper, an adaptive synchronous rectifier (SR) driving scheme for the LLC resonant converters using the ripple counter concept is proposed, along with two methods of implementation. With the proposed scheme, the SR drain to source voltage is sensed to detect the body diode conduction, based on which the SR on-time can be well tuned to eliminate the body diode conduction. One proposed implementation...
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