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Simulation times of electric circuits containing switching power supplies not only depend on the algorithms used for solving the network equations but also on the choice of the time-step-control strategy. While generic simulation packages use the estimated truncation error to find the optimum time step, in this work a more specialized approach was followed. After studying the analytic solution and...
With the development of semiconductor technology, semiconductor switching devices have the advantages of fast switching speed, high stability, so they are popular in pulsed power research field, but the use of semiconductor switch causes the main circuit be complex and the cost increase, and the switching speed is limited by the drift velocity of the charge carriers for the particular device. So it...
This paper proposes a comprehensive optimization methodology to simultaneously determine the clock frequency, area ratio of pump capacitor to switching circuit, number of stages, and capacitor size of integrated switched-capacitor charge pump voltage multipliers. Power efficiency of the charge pump is also discussed in various views. How the top and bottom plate parasitic capacitance and the threshold...
We propose a fast and precise simulation method for replicating the transient responses and frequency characteristics of switching power converters using a mixture of real circuits and behavioral models. The method used a behavioral simulation tool (Verilog-A), which was supported by an analog simulator such as SPECTRE®. The time-step became variable, however, the nonlinear operation of the circuit...
In this paper we have analyzed the design, realization and optimization of a photovoltaic (PV) system provided with MPPT command and detection circuit of dysfunction and reconvergence the system (CDCS) to the new maximum power point (MPP) following a perturbation due to weather variation (solar irradiation, temperature, ‥) and the load. The results obtained show very good agreement between simulation...
This paper proposes first-order and third-order Switched Capacitor realizations of fractional order differentiators and integrators. First, the s-to-z transformation is expanded for fractional powers using Taylor series expansion (TSE) and continued fraction expansion (CFE). Then, the stabilized models of the fractional order differentiators and integrators are realized using Switched capacitor (SC)...
This paper proposes a fast, precise transient response and frequency characteristics simulation method for switching converters. This method uses a behavioral simulation tool (MATLAB/Simulink) without using a SPICE-like analog simulator. The nonlinear operation of the circuit is considered, and the nonlinear function is realized by defining the formula based on the circuit operation and by applying...
A SPICE-compatible circuit model for multi-sensor CDPS SENSE-FET (Current Detection and Power Self-Supply Sense Field Effect Transistor) is proposed. Based on the discrepancy in the current flow-lines, the subcircuit model is developed by employing the piecewise model equivalence. A dual-gate controlling model has been included to precisely describe the controllable charging current. Simulations,...
An electric brake for wind turbine systems is proposed in this paper. Effective emergency electrical braking is needed if an overvoltage occurs due to grid failure. The derived circuits use high power thyristors corresponding to the high values of generated power from today's wind turbines. A practical confirmation with BLDC a generator is ongoing in the laboratory. The principle of operation is proved...
The paper deals with the transient analysis in the simulation techniques of switching circuits typically employed in power electronics. It is not easy to simulate power electronic circuits, because they are variant topology circuits. Most simulators consider an approximation model for the switch in order to obtain an invariant topology, but this approach introduces new problems. A good solution to...
With technology scaling, vulnerability to soft errors in random logic is increasing. There is a need for on-line error detection and protection for logic gates even at sea level. The error checker is the key element for an on-line detection mechanism. We compare three different checkers for error detection from the point of view of area, power and false error detection rates. We find that the double...
While the CMOS analog circuits can be designed with the minimum-gate-length of the fabrication process in the alpha-power law MOSFET model, the length of a MOSFET gate has been chosen to be a larger scale than the minimum-gate-length in the conventional Shockleypsilas square model. In this paper, we describe a 6-b 100 MSPS CMOS current steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with the alpha-power...
This paper describes a design flow for the circuit-level optimization of a technology. The concurrent exploration of device characteristics and library design choices leads to a more application-optimal technology. We illustrate the design flow by: 1) analyzing the impact of buffer cell design, and 2) by optimizing a 130 nm technology for low operational power.
A novel methodology for accurate and efficient static timing analysis is presented in this paper. The methodology is based on finding a frequency domain model for the gates which allows uniform treatment of the gates and interconnects. It is shown that despite the highly nonlinear overall gate model, a frequency domain model of the gate with the model parameters, gate moments, as functions of the...
The efficiency of a solid state switch used in short pulse applications is determined by how rapidly the effective resistance decreases during turn-on. Applied Pulsed Power has examined the resistance fall for our high current, high di/dt, solid state switches and produced a useful model for the resistance versus time under various operating conditions. The model covers voltages up to 48 kV, currents...
In this paper, the characteristics of the basic current mirror and the continuous-time current-mode current mirror integrator are analyzed. Using the two unlossy loop integrators and the basic current mirrors, the biquad circuit block is implemented. The signal flow graph (SFG) and the improved leap-frog (ILF) structure are simple to implement the six-order band pass filters. Exploring PSPICE9.1 simulation...
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