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A Range Pre-selection Sampling (RPS) technique is introduced to reduce the input drive energy for SAR ADCs and is applied to a 10-bit 2MS/s SAR ADC in 65nm CMOS in this paper. Using the proposed RPS technique, the peak input sampling current and hence the input drive power requirement is reduced by a factor 2.4 as compared to conventional sampling (CS). Considering an ideal Class A operation for the...
DC-link capacitor is one of the reliability-critical components in motor drive applications, which contributes to a considerable cost, size and failure. Its reliability performance depends on both inherent physical strength and external loading. The grid unbalances could alter the electro-thermal stresses of key components in a motor drive. Therefore, this paper investigates the impact of grid voltage...
This paper introduces a new insertion index selection method to control a Back-to-Back Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) laboratory platform. The test bench is based on a Power-Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL) setup constructed from two 6kVA, 3-phase, 10 cells per arm MMC systems connected in Back-to-Back configuration. The proposed insertion index selection method uses the arithmetic mean of available...
The paper concerns ferroelectric film features and their application in the field of memory ICs design. The results of FRAM test memory cells irradiation are shown and discussed. The current responses of the memory cells are presented as well as the calculated value of polarization The measurement complex used during the experiment is described.
This paper focuses on zero-crossing spike current issue in totem-pole bridgeless PFC converter. Spike current occurs at every input voltage zero-crossing and becomes a severe conducted common mode noise source. The zero-crossing issue is discussed by theoretical analysis and mathematical calculation, the conducted noise caused by zero-crossing issue can be predicted by calculating Fourier coefficient...
This paper presents the study, design and simulation of a laboratory module related to filters. With this laboratory platform it was accomplish a comparative study between current feedback (CFA) and voltage feedback (VFA). Because the laboratory platform has an educational role, it was presented some practical aspects of active filters measurement and also the differences between the measured values...
A charge pump is DC/DC converter that produces a higher output voltage than power supply or generates a negative output voltage. Some variants of charge pumps work as voltage regulator, too. A charge pump is realised by capacitors, transistors and/or diodes. Therefore, some charge pumps are integrated directly to the systems that use these charge pumps. E.g. Flash or EEPROM memories are supplied from...
Reliability is one of the key features that is sought after in converter design. Electrolytic capacitors are the most common capacitor type in switching mode power supplies to be used as a DC bus energy storage. However, electrolytic capacitors are known to degrade due to aging. This paper introduces a capacitance degradation detection method for a step-down DC-DC converter that is based on introducing...
This paper presents a LED driver IC based on a self-resonant Hybrid-Switched Capacitor Converter (H-SCC) operating in the MHz range. Capacitors and switches of the LED driver are integrated on-chip in a low-cost 5V 0.18μm bulk CMOS technology. The effective chip area is 7.5mm2. A conventional SMD output capacitor and a 6.4 mm2 150nH SMD air-core inductor are enough to operate the driver in a compact...
The paper presents the results of an analysis of the inter-turn fault effects on the voltage and current waveform of the capacitor discharge through transformer winding. The research was done within the FAIR project for which a measuring and diagnostic system for testing the condition of electrical circuits of superconducting electromagnets system is being developed. Appropriate measurements and simulations...
The space charge accumulation in polymeric materials is one of the important behaviors of pre-ageing phenomena in electrical insulations. The Pulsed electro-acoustic (PEA) method is an appropriate method to understand the space charge behavior, but some kind of charges such as charges with high speed are hardly detected by the method. To understand the whole information of charges, that is Q(t) behaviors,...
Both the space charges and the currents in the solid dielectrics are important properties to describe the insulating and dielectric behaviors of insulation materials. Usually, they are measured by the individual appropriate method, such as PEA method for space charges and pico-ammeter for leakage currents, however, as weak signals should be treated with, the information obtained from the measurements...
The calibration of the transresistance gain of low-current dc amplifiers can be performed with the capacitance-charging method, where the calibration current is generated by a calibrated voltage ramp applied to a reference capacitor. The method is typically implemented with a purposely-built voltage source having a very low-frequency trapezoidal periodic waveform output. Here we propose a variation...
Gokmen and Vlasov proposed that the training of deep neural networks would be dramatically accelerated by the realization of resistive processing units that can store analog weights to minimize data movement during training [1]. Here we measure and evaluate the partial switching of the ferroelectric (FE) PbZrTiO3 (PZT) and, for the first time, Hf0 8Zr0 2O2, (HZO), formed by atomic layer deposition,...
This paper analyzes the conducted noise generation mechanism of totem-pole bridgeless PFC converter in consideration of frame ground capacitor and LISN at every input voltage zero-crossing. The spike current occurs at zero-crossing and causes severe common mode noise. The frequency range on noise spectrum caused by zero-crossing issue is discussed by mathematical calculation. Furthermore, the experimental...
This paper proposes a novel LED driver, which consists of an isolated single-switch AC-DC converter with power factor correction (PFC) suitable for streetlight applications. Theoretical analysis of operational modes for the presented LED driver is included. In addition, a 65W-rated prototype circuit of the proposed LED driver with an input utility-line voltage of 110 V has been implemented and tested...
This paper presents a new dynamic residue amplifier for pipelined ADCs. With an input of 100mVpp, diff and 4x gain, it achieves −100dB THD, the lowest ever reported in dynamic amplifiers. Compared to the state-of-the-art, it exhibits >25dB better linearity with >2x larger output swing and similar noise performance. The key to this is a new linearization technique based on capacitive-degeneration...
Whereas bipolar DC microgrid has several advantages over monopolar DC grid [1], [2], its disadvantages cannot be underestimated. The currents in the pole lines can become asymmetric, and the neutral conductor carries non-zero current. To eliminate the current imbalance caused by unipolar loads/generators in bipolar DC microgrids, different types of current redistributor have been proposed and implemented...
DC microgrids have the potential to radically disrupt the distribution system market due to the benefits offered in easing the integration and control of distributed renewable energy resources and energy storage systems. However, the non-zero-crossing fault current profiles associated with short-circuited DC systems present a major challenge for protection. Isolation of faulted networks prior to the...
The benefits offered by the DC energy distribution in different applications raised the interests towards new power architectures and apparatus. The availability of the related LV and MV apparatus and protection schemes is in fact crucial to fully exploit the opportunities opened in the energy management for the smart grid. Experimental results of testing DC circuit breakers based upon current injection...
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