Analysis and design of an LCL-T resonant converter as a constant-current power supply

An LCL-T resonant converter (LCL-T RC) is shown to behave as a current source when operated at resonant frequency. A detailed analysis of the LCL-T RC for this property is presented. Closed-form expressions for converter gain, component stresses, and the condition for converter design optimized for minimum size of resonant network is derived. A design procedure is illustrated with a prototype 200-W 20-A current-source power supply and experimental results are presented. The LCL-T RC as a current source offers many advantages such as easy parallel operation and low circulating currents at light load. Additionally, with appropriate phase shift in paralleled modules, the peak-peak ripple in output current is reduced and the ripple frequency is increased, reducing filtering requirements. The leakage inductance of a transformer can be advantageously integrated into the resonant network. These merits make the topology applicable in various applications such as magnet power supply, capacitor charging power supply, laser diode drivers, etc.     

A hybrid structure using phase-controlled rectifiers andhigh-frequency converters for magnet-load power supplies

Thyristor rectifiers are still the preferred choice for large magnet power supplies. However, large harmonic voltages, resulting in large current ripple, and slow dynamic response are major drawbacks of these converters. This paper presents a topology and a control technique for hybrid large-power high-precision magnet power supplies. The system consists of a phase controlled rectifier connected in series with a high-frequency PWM converter. The rectifier is designed to handle the main output power and the PWM converter is used only for harmonics cancellation and error compensation. A feedforward control scheme is proposed to ensure that the desired power sharing is maintained during both the steady state and transient operations. The operating principles of the proposed structure are discussed in the paper, and the results from a 1 kVA experimental setup are provided to validate the proposed topology     

A low noise,high power efficiency supply regulator for near-field power delivery

In order to deliver near-field electromagnetic power to a biomedical device or an RFID tag efficiently, the downlink signal is preferred to be at a high voltage level. To reduce power consumption and meet low supply requirements, it is advantageous for the remote device power supply to step-down the input voltage following rectification, typically using switch-mode regulators. The output ripple of a switched capacitor converter is inversely proportional to the filtering capacitance at the output node and switching frequency. In this paper, a hybrid DC–DC converter utilizing a switched capacitor regulator in master–slave configuration with a linear regulator is presented. Linear regulator actively cancels the switching ripple, while low frequency and DC current is provided by the switched capacitor converter. The converter is designed to receive an average input voltage of 5 Vpk from the receiver coil, with an output voltage of 2 V, and 5 mA of output current. The proposed regulator is fabricated in 0.35 μm technology. The power efficiency is measured to be 67%, with a nominal peak to peak ripple of less than 2 mV at the output.     

Robust Multiple-Phase Switched-Capacitor DC–DC Power Converter With Digital Interleaving Regulation Scheme

An integrated switched-capacitor (SC) DC–DC converter with a digital interleaving regulation scheme is presented. By interleaving the newly-structured charge pump (CP) sub-cells in multiple phases, the input current ripple and output voltage ripple of the converter are reduced significantly. The converter exhibits excellent robustness, even when one CP sub-cell fails to operate due to unexpected device failure. A fully digital controller is employed with hysteretic control, featuring deadbeat stability and fast transient response. With a 1.5-V input power supply, the SC power converter precisely provides an adaptable regulated power output from 1.6 to 2.7 V. A maximum output ripple of $pm $20 mV is observed at the full load of 540 mW. The load transient response is around 1.8 $mu$s, when the load current switches from half to full load (from 100 to 200 mA). The design provides a fast-response, low-noise, and fault-tolerant solution to new-generation on-chip power supplies.      

Integrated on-chip 0.35 μm BiCMOS current-mode DC–DC buck converter

A current-mode DC–DC buck converter with a fully integrated power module is presented in this article. The converter is implemented using BiCMOS technology in amplifier and power MOSFET in a current sensor. The current sensor is realised by the power lateral double-diffused MOSFET with the aspect ratio much larger than that of a matched p-MOSFET. In addition, BiCMOS technology is applied in the error amplifier for an accurate current sensing and a fast transient response. The DC–DC converter is fabricated with 0.35?µm BiCMOS process. Experimental results show that the fully integrated converter operates at 1.3?MHz switching frequency with a supply voltage of 5?V. The output DC voltage is obtained as expected and the output ripple is controlled to be within 2% with a 30?µH off-chip inductor and 100?µF off-chip capacitor.     

An active power factor correction technique for three-phase dioderectifiers

A novel active power factor correction method for power supplies with three-phase front-end diode rectifiers is proposed and analyzed. The implementation of this method requires the use of an additional single switch boost chopper. The combined front-end converter draws sinusoidal AC currents from the AC source with nearly unity input power factor while operating at a fixed switching frequency. It is shown that when the active input power factor correction stage is also used to regulate the converter DC bus voltage, the converter performance can improve substantially in comparison with the conventional three-phase AC-to-DC converters. These improvements include component count reduction, simplified input synchronization logic requirements, and smaller filter refractive components. Theoretical results are verified experimentally. The proposed method has the disadvantage of substantially increasing the current stresses of the switching devices and the high-frequency ripple content of the prefiltered AC input currents     

一种四相交错并联BoostDC／DC变换器的设计

通信电源及分布式电源主要由前级高频整流器、中间级电池组和后级DC／DC变换器组成。DC／DC变换器的输入部分通常采用大功率Boost变换器,以将前级与中间级的直流电压提升至一定的幅度,从而更方便地形成所需提供给负载的各种电压。IntelCPU广泛用于IT工业,其对电源的要求越来越严格,需要提供更低的电压、更大的电流及更快的动态响应。为了改进Buck类型电压调整模块（Voltage Regulator Module,简称VRM）的动态响应要求,广泛使用多相交错并联技术,以实现快速的动态响应且极大地降低输出电流纹波。文章以一个大功率的四相交错并联Boost变换器作为设计实例,详细说明了其工作原理及主要器件的设计与选用;论证了该项技术用于BoostDC／DC变换器的多种优点,从而证明了多相交错并联技术的先进性和实用性。     

Network Control System (NCS) for Performance Improvement of Dual Converter Power Supply System Using Adaptive Inverse Dynamic Mode (AIDMC) Control Technique

With recent advances in power electronics, dual converter power supply based electric variable-speed drives are significantly used in many industries uses. Power electronic motor drivers are becoming able to efficiently read the inflexible characteristics of DC motor to prerequisites the load. By controlling the input armature voltage, the DC motor speed automatically changed. Half-bridge converter, semi converter, full bridge converter and dual converter are some of the thyristor controlled rectifier circuits are widely used in variable speed drives. In This work presents single phase dual converter power supply system based on adaptive inverse dynamic mode control (AIDMC) technique. The efficient dual converter control solution for industrial network control system (NCS) is proposed based on the industrial grade requirements, designed for low to high voltage operation. As the era of connecting the devices with the cloud is being increased gradually, the proposed method uses an NCS protocol for monitoring as well as controlling the dual converter system. The proposed method provides us the control over forward and reverse rotation, forward and reverse regeneration. From the simulation results, the proposed result offers variable DC voltage which is capable of four quadrant operation of the drive in a speed-torque plane by using MATLAB Simulink environment. A hardware setup also developed to validate the simulation. Over 96% accuracy achieved full load condition for proposed dual converter power supply system based on AIDMC controller.     

Frequency tunable low ripple and fast response on-chip DC–DC converter for DVFS

Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is an efficient method to reduce the power consumption in system on-chip. To support DVFS, multiple supply voltages are generated based on different work load frequencies and currents using on-chip DC–DC voltage converter. In this paper a frequency tunable multiple output voltage switched capacitor based dc–dc converter is presented. An analog to digital converter and phase controller is used in the feedback to change the switching frequency and duty cycle of the converter. An input voltage of 1.8 V is converted to 0.6 and 0.8 V for low and high signal frequency respectively. The proposed 2-phase switched capacitor architecture with gain setting of 1:2 is designed with the 90 nm technology. An output ripple of 45 mV is observed and the maximum transient response time of the converter is 17.3 ns (= 58 MHz).     

A PFC voltage regulator with low input current distortion derived from a rectifierless topology

This paper presents an ac-dc converter topology for realization of power factor correction (PFC) voltage regulators for applications where the mains frequency is high and a low input current harmonic is required, e.g., in aircraft power systems. The proposed converter represents a minimal configuration consisting of two basic converters, which can be systematically derived from a previously proposed general synthesis procedure for rectifierless ac-dc converters. The proposed PFC converter has incorporated a control method which drastically reduces the circulating power and hence raises the efficiency to a level comparable to existing PFC converters. The proposed PFC converter can completely eliminate any crossover distortion, which can be significant for supply systems having a high mains frequency. In addition, the proposed converter allows bidirectional energy flow ensuring all inductors work in continuous conduction mode hence eliminating the distortion due to the abrupt change of dynamic response when the operating mode changes. Analysis and design of the power and control circuits will be given and discussed. An experimental system will be presented for verification purposes.     

DC voltage control and stability analysis of PWM-voltage-typereversible rectifiers

A PWM voltage rectifier has useful characteristics on its DC and AC sides. On its DC side, a DC-link unidirectional voltage is obtained and bidirectional power transfer capability is possible by reversing the flow direction of the DC-link current. On its AC side, near sinusoidal current waveforms and AC four-quadrant operation can be obtained, leading to high-quality power being exchanged between the power converter and the mains. The use of AC filters becomes unnecessary. The rectifier DC voltage must be regulated to a constant value. In this paper, three solutions for the DC voltage control are presented. In the first solution, the DC voltage is controlled by acting upon the quadrature component of the power converter fundamental Park's voltages with relation to the mains voltages. Slow responses are necessary because of stability reasons. Also, load power variations produce both active and reactive power variations in the power converter AC side. To improve the DC voltage response, a second control solution is presented. The power converter currents in Park's coordinates must be controlled. The DC voltage is controlled by controlling the direct Park's current component and, thus, acting only on the active power of the converter AC side. Faster responses are achieved. In this case, load power variations do not produce reactive power variations in the converter AC side. The third control solution is a simplified version of this last one. Experimental results from a 2 kVA IGBT-based prototype showing good system dynamic performance are presented     

基于双脉宽调制技术的DC-DC电源设计

针对电力设备对直流供电电源的要求,采用可以有效抑制输出电压纹波与输出电流谐波的双脉宽调制方式为开关管的控制方法,在此基础上对采用该技术的DC-DC电源设计进行了研究.首先完成电源的方案设计,并对电源控制系统进行详细的理论分析与计算,最后通过对设计电源的动态响应速度、抗输入扰动能力与抗负载突变能力等指标的实验,对电源的设...     

A voltage mode buck DC–DC converter with automatic PWM/PSM mode switching by detecting the transient inductor current

This paper presents a voltage mode buck DC–DC converter that integrates pulse-width modulation (PWM) and pulse-skipping modulation (PSM) to achieve high efficiency under heavy and light load conditions, respectively. Automatic mode-switching is implemented simply by detecting the voltage drop of high-side power switch when it is on, which indicates the transient current flowing through the inductor. Unlike other methods based on average current sensing, the proposed auto-mode switching scheme is implemented based on voltage comparison and simple control logic circuit. In order to avoid unstable mode switching near the load condition boundary, the mode switching threshold voltage is set differently in PWM and PSM mode. Besides, a 16-cycle counter is also used to ensure correct detection of the change in the load condition and fast response of the converter. In addition, a dual-path error amplifier with clamp circuit is also adopted to realize loop compensation and ensure 100 % duty cycle operation. Fabricated in a 0.18-μm standard CMOS technology, the DC–DC converter is able to operate under supply voltage from 2.8 to 5.5 V with 3-MHz clock frequency. Measurement results show that the converter achieves a peak efficiency of 93 %, and an output voltage ripple of less than 40 mV, while the chip area is 1.02 mm².     

An economical four-quadrant GTO converter and its application to DCdrives

A four-quadrant gate turn-off (GTO) power converter employing a single six-GTO bridge and four thyristors as reversing switches is described. Such a four-quadrant converter is economical compared to a dual-converter employing two bridges, each with six GTOs. A four-quadrant DC motor drive employing the proposed converter and closed-loop speed control with an inner current control loop is also presented. The controllers are designed using symmetric optimization. Experimental results with a 3 HP DC motor are given for steady-state and transient responses of the drive. A comparative study of the present four-quadrant drive and the one reported earlier is also presented     

星用基于UC1845多路输出双管反激开关电源设计

为了解决航天器DC/DC变换器高压输入多路输出时,开关管电压应力以及多路输出稳定度问题,设计了一种基于UC1845的多路输出双管反激开关电源。主电路采用双管反激式变换器,使主开关管上的电压应力仅为输入电压Vin,满足航天器高可靠性的应用需求;同时电路采用磁隔离反馈稳压控制,通过一个反馈控制量实现多路输出,输出端配合应用低压差三端稳压器,各路输出负载稳定度优于±1%。控制电路采用电流型控制器UC1845,其具有电压调整率高、负载调整率高和瞬态响应快等优点。实验结果表明,该电源安全可靠、稳定性好、纹波小、效率高,达到了设计要求。     

Zero-voltage-ripple rectifiers and DC/DC resonant converters

Class E zero-voltage-ripple (ZVR) rectifiers are introduced. The proposed circuits offer a new means of a significant improvement in suppressing the output voltage ripple compared with their predecessors. Therefore, the size of the output filter can be considerably reduced, the rI_rms² conduction power loss in the equivalent series resistance of the filter capacitor can be lowered, aluminum or tantalum electrolytic capacitors may be entirely eliminated, filter capacitors with low capacitances and thereby high self-resonant frequencies can be used, and a faster dynamic response becomes achievable. ZVR is accomplished by reducing the AC component of the current at the input of the output filter. Class E² and Class D-E ZVR resonant DC/DC power converters are derived using the Class E ZVR rectifiers. An experimental prototype of a Class E² 30 W/500 kHz DC/DC converter was built and tested. Its output voltage ripple was as much as 20 times lower than that of the corresponding conventional converter. The new converters are suitable for noise-sensitive high-output-current applications     

High-efficiency dual transistor base drive circuit based on the Cukconverter topology

A dual transistor base drive circuit that unifies all important functions (on-state base current power supply for two power transistors, off-state negative U_be =-5 V base-emitter voltage, overcurrent and short-circuit protection scheme based on saturation voltage, and on- and off-state monitoring circuits) is described. The unit provides two base drive outputs using a single switching converter. It can be used to control two individual power transistors in different inverter configurations, e.g. common emitter or bridge configuration. The concept of a dual transistor base drive circuit using the Cuk switching regulator topology enables the low volume construction of a high-efficiency base drive unit for a high-power transistor inverter bridge leg. The circuit is powered from a common DC rail. The base current waveforms are characterized by steep slopes and an overcurrent peak at turn on     

飞机直流母线变换器的输入电磁干扰滤波器设计

针对飞机直流270 V至直流28 V电源变换器的应用需求,分析了电源变换器输入端的传导及辐射电磁干扰源.通过对电源变换器的电磁干扰（electromagnetic interference,EMI）频谱进行分析,确定了滤波器的参数.为了抑制滤波器振荡,提出在差模电感两端并联电阻电感网络的方法,替代使用液态铝电容的传统方法,提升滤波器的可靠性.根据差模电感中电流直流分量远高于交流分量的特点,提出采用扁铜漆包线来实现绕组的方法,使差模电感的体积降低.根据锰锌铁氧体低频磁导率高,镍锌铁氧体高频磁导率稳定的特点,提出双磁芯共模电感的设计方法,实现共模电感宽频率和小体积.实测结果证明输入电磁干扰滤波器可使电源变换器符合GJB 151中CE102要求.     

Implementation of zero current switch turn-ON based buck-boost-buck type rectifier for low power applications

A single-stage single-switch AC–DC integrated converter is proposed in this paper, as a tight DC voltage regulator with unity input power factor for the fundamental component of the input current. Proposed converter is formed by the integration of buck-boost configuration with a buck converter operated by a single switch. The buck-boost section of the proposed configuration is operated in current discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) to get unity input power factor at the supply terminals and the buck section is operated up to boundary current conduction mode (BCM). The features acquired by the converter operating in complete discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) are unity input power factor, zero-current turn-ON for the Switch, fast and good DC output voltage regulation with extensive conversion range and low voltage stress on the switch. Additionally, the intermediate capacitor voltage stress is independent of converter load variations and so the switch also is subjected to constant peak voltage stress. A comprehensive study is carried out to obtain the necessary design equations. A design model is implemented using simulation and hardware. The results confirm the performance of the proposed configuration.     

SKA用低频高效率整流电源的研制

平方公里阵列天文望远镜(Square Kilometer Array,SKA)是我国作为正式成员参加第二个国际大科学工程的项目。为了保证SKA系统中天线的信号检测精度,要求其供电电源采用工频工作方式。SKA天线要求供电电源的工作频率为50 Hz,交流输入为240 V,输出为4.5 V和80 A,对高效、低纹波以及高功率因数电源的研制提出了极大的挑战。采用隔离式低频数字驱动全波同步整流方式有效降低了整流损耗,提高了整机效率。设计了无源功率因数补偿电路提高了输入功率因数,同时利用晶闸管调压技术结合单片机控制实现了输出电压闭环调节。最后研制了一台工作频率为50 Hz,输出为4.5 V/80 A,整机效率为80.4%,输出电压纹波为137 mV,功率因数为0.937的样机,达到SKA天线用电源的供电要求。