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Power-efficient pulse width modulation DC/DC converters with zero voltage switching control

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Changbo Long,

Sasank Reddy,

Sudhakar Pamarti,

Lei He,

Tanay KarnikAuthors Info & Claims

ISLPED '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Low power electronics and design

Pages 326 - 329

https://doi.org/10.1145/1165573.1165650

Published: 04 October 2006 Publication History

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This paper proposes a power-efficient PWM DC/DC converter design with a novel zero voltage switching (ZVS) control technique. The ZVS control is realized by an inner feedback loop which is implemented by simple digital circuitry between the input and output of the power transistors and achieves real-time zero voltage switching (ZVS) for various loading and device parameters with power efficiencies over 90.0%. In addition, an outer feedback loop is used to ensure that the output precisely tracks a reference voltage level. We have also built the relationship between the output voltage ripple and the speed of the voltage comparators which has shown to introduce new low-frequency signals to the loops and cause significant output voltage ripples. Experiment results show that the output ripple could be reduced by 4x by carefully handling the generation and propagation of these low frequency signals.

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ISLPED '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Low power electronics and design

October 2006

446 pages

ISBN:1595934626

DOI:10.1145/1165573

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Wolfgang Nebel
University of Oldenburg and OFFIS
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University of Virginia
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NEC Laboratories America
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University of Karlsruhe
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Carnegie Mellon University

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