The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
This paper describes the system design considerations and challenges faced during the design of automotive power management ICs (PMIC). Rear view camera have been considered as a case study because of wide spread acceptance as driver assistance systems. Optimal IC architectures with DC-DC and LDO combination and their trade-offs have been carefully analyzed. Key considerations regarding automotive...
Modular multilevel converters (MMC) have many advantages owing to their power-stage modularity. However, this modularity does not extend directly to the control. Particularly, the balancing control usually requires central coordination and increases in complexity with the system size. This paper presents a balancing control method for a more general modular multilevel converter with series and parallel...
An integrated reset controller (voltage supervisor) is designed and implemented. The system generates a reset signal, active while power supply brownout conditions are detected and for 250 ms after the supply voltage has increased to acceptable levels. The circuit is built in a Deep N-Well (DNW) 5V 0.35μm CMOS process, which provides good isolation between the on-chip devices and the substrate. The...
A novel non-volatile 1-bit binary comparator based on pure memristors and an 8-bit comparator based on 1T1M (1 transistor per memristor) crossbar array are proposed in this paper. The proposed comparator is sneak-path free and has short delays. It can be extended to an arbitrary N-bit comparator with 7N memristors and 7N transistors. The worst case input-to-output delay is 4.8ns. A 64-bit comparator...
An original and modern integrated current sensor is designed and presented in this paper. It can provide a sense current proportional to an output current available to the microcontroller via an external resistor. The ratio between output and sense current is modeled and simulated. The errors between the two currents increase in low currents domain. A solution consisting in a gate back regulation...
This paper presents a 40–45 GHz high intermediate frequency (IF) stage for an extremely wide tuning range (10–40 GHz) receiver, in a 250 GHz fT SiGe BiCMOS process. The chip of the high IF stage down-converts the input 40–45 GHz signal to a low second IF of 0.2 to 4 GHz using a frequency multiplied tunable 10.875–11.875 GHz LO signal. The chip consists of a single-ended input/differential output amplifier,...
This paper provides a novel voltage space vector modulation algorithm dedicated to the inverter fault-tolerant motor drive systems based on the four-switch inverter topology. The proposed technique ensures an accurate phase voltage modulation even under a DC-link voltage imbalance. Moreover, the capacitor voltages of the DC-link are leveled up so that the simultaneous motor drive operation is obtained...
A novel structure for an analog linear variable gain amplifier (VGA) fabricated in CMOS 0.35μm technology is proposed in this paper. In order to increase noise performance and linearity, the VGA is designed based on differential topology. The pseudo-exponential gain is altered following the control of a current source supplied to a differential source-coupled pair with diode-connected loads. This...
An innovative active-quenching circuit for single photon avalanche diode is presented. A differential amplification circuit based on offset control scheme is adopted to realize rapid avalanche signal discrimination. In order to save the die area, a voltage-controlled transistor acting as a sensing resistance is used. Compared with other traditional circuits, the proposed circuit does not need reference...
The proposed and argued concept for realization includes the possibility of realizing an average of the medium voltage transformer, for example, with 10 / 0.22 kV parameters. Equipment with these parameters is known as Solid State Transformer (SST), which provides direct connection of consumers to the medium voltage power supply. The output frequency of these transformers is equal to the industrial...
A new circuit solution for current controlled current amplification is proposed. The basic idea of the circuit is to use a DC current in order to induce an unbalance on the VGS loop of a current mirror. It is demonstrated that the input-output amplification is controlled by a DC current.
AC voltage regulators, an important family of power conditioners, are intended to reduce line-voltage fluctuations of AC mains at customer premises. Typical designs are based on automatic tap changers, motor-driven variacs, thyristor-based systems, ferro-resonant systems and solid-state versions. Solid-state regulators typically rely on high frequency switching, so have significant RFI/EMI problems,...
A DC/DC converter that can be used to charge a lead-acid battery bank from a wide variety of input renewable sources is presented. The motherboard of the converter can be populated in such way that a boost or a SEPIC (Single-Ended Primary-Inductor Converter) structure is obtained. In order to lower the stress on the electronic components, the converter uses four DC/DC stages connected in parallel...
A new CMOS current attenuator circuit is designed and demonstrated. The purpose of this circuit is to attenuate steady state current in conjunction with CMOS ADC readout circuits for electrochemical sensing applications. The circuit has been fabricated in a 5 V AMS CMOS process. Salient features include: (1) bi-directional input current range from 25 nA to 300 nA; (2) current attenuation of 55 dB;...
In this paper, a new electronically controllable current-mode instrumentation amplifier (CMIA) is presented. The proposed CMIA is based on only two electronically tunable second-generation current conveyors (ECCIIs). It does not need any passive element which makes it highly suitable for integration. More interestingly, high CMRR is achieved without the need for matching between active elements. Its...
The paper discusses an issue of the voltage balancing in the intermediate DC circuit of a three-level converter system for a smart grid application. A combination of two methods of the voltage balancing is presented in the paper. The voltages of DC-link capacitors, depending on the operating mode, are controlled by the three-level grid connected AC/DC converter or by the two level DC/DC converter...
A new topology modification of the parallel quasi-resonant circuit for a dc-link voltage inverter enables regulation of the zero voltage dc-link subperiods and the dc-link voltage gradient settings. The proposed circuit is based on four MOSFET switches with free-wheeling diodes for controlled quasi-resonant recharging between L-C tank in order to assure inverter zero voltage switching (ZVS) conditions...
A digitally controlled LDO in 14nm tri-gate CMOS powering an Atom™ core with embedded power gates enables per-core DVFS over a wide voltage-frequency range. The LDO demonstrates 99.6% peak current efficiency at 2.5A load current and provides a power density of 26.1 W/mm2. The multi-mode digital controller featuring non-linear mode and adaptive gain achieves <20ns settling time with a 100mV droop...
A low-dropout regulator (LDO) with 800 mA load current with wide range input voltage is designed and proposed in this paper. The designed LDO includes two cascaded LDOs. The first one uses a p-type of DMOS power transistor to convert a wide input voltage (3.9 to 20 V) to a stable output voltage of 3 V, which provides a supply voltage for other circuits. The second LDO is designed to achieve a large...
The Chopper Circuits are widely used in practical applications, but the voltage output of open-loop Buck Chopper could not meet application requirements on stability, accuracy and rapidity. Aiming at these existing problems, this paper presents a closed-loop design, which constitutes the negative feedback by adopting incremental PI regulation and PWM control, to obtain stable and accurate output....
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.