Sinusoidal frequency doubler and full-wave rectifier based on translinear current-controlled current conveyors

A circuit design technique that employs translinear current-controlled current conveyors as active circuit elements to design a sinusoidal frequency doubling and full-wave rectifying circuit is proposed. The circuit can realize the sinusoidal frequency doubler and full-wave rectifier without changing the circuit configuration. The proposed frequency doubling and rectifying action is exploited from the translinear characteristic of the current conveyor. Simulation and experimental results are given to confirm the theoretical predictions.     

The electromagnetic field in rotating coordinate frames

The use of Galilean rotating coordinates with the covariant form of the electromagnetic-field equations leads to the appearance of spurious electromagnetic-field terms, identical with terms arising from the use of Galilean coordinates for a linearly translating frame. The spurious terms will complicate the analysis of constitutive relations in rotating media.     

Recovery in a multigrid rectifier

Simultaneous recovery of grading grids has been observed in a multigrid mercury-arc valve without the appearance of grid discharges in the recovery period. From this work it is concluded that a compact valve exhibiting rapid deionisation and recovery to potentials in excess of 250kV may be feasible. Such a valve could readily find applications for h.v.d.c. power transmission and for high-power modulators.     

Resonances in a high-power active-front-end rectifier system

This paper presents the application of high-power three-level active-front-end rectifiers to regenerate energy in a downhill conveyor system. The selective harmonic elimination method is used to eliminate harmonics 11 and 13, working with very low switching frequency, where six-pulse harmonic orders 6k/spl plusmn/1 are eliminated by the delta-wye connection of the transformer. In this way, the input current at the mains is highly sinusoidal with small harmonics starting at frequencies of order 23 and 25. Resonances have been detected, originated mainly by the capacitances of feeding cables and noneliminated harmonics, which produce high-voltage distortion. Theoretical and field measurements present the problem and the solution by using a specially designed high-pass power filter.     

A current-controlled latch sense amplifier and a staticpower-saving input buffer for low-power architecture

Two new power-saving schemes for high-performance VLSIs with a large-scale memory and many interface signals are described. One is a current-controlled latch sense amplifier that reduces the power dissipation by stopping sense current automatically. This sense amplifier reduces power without degrading access time compared with the conventional current-mirror sense amplifier. The other is a static power-saving input buffer (SPSIB) that reduces DC current in interface circuits receiving TTL high input level. The effectiveness of these new circuits is demonstrated with a 512-kb high-speed SRAM     

Dynamic control of a fixed pattern rectifier

A three-phase, sinusoidal, active rectifier is presented, based on the classical inverter topology. The switches are governed by a fixed pulse width modulation (PWM) pattern, and the control strategy is extremely simplified as compared with many active rectifiers. General equations describing the steady-state operation of fixed pattern rectifiers are given. A dynamic model of the simplified control rectifier is presented, based on the nonlinear equations describing the system. Based on the analytical model, the classical PI-controller yields poor dynamic results, especially at low load conditions. However, the dynamic performance of the prototype is much better, due to the effects of commutation dead time of the rectifier switches. It is shown that a small modification to the classical PI-controller yields a remarkable increase in amplitude and phase margin, without slowing down the response. The obtained dynamics show a clear improvement over the classical PI-controller and are adequate for most applications     

一种新型肖特基整流管设计

在研究功率肖特基整流管的基础上,针对反向击穿电压、漏电流、抗浪涌能力的提高,采取加场限环的方法,设计并制造了一种新型结势垒肖特基整流管(Junction barrier Schottky rectifier,JBS)。通过从有源区参数、外延材料、流片工艺、产品电参数、可靠性等方面进行了全面设计。经测试,电参数水平正向电压VF：0.85-0.856V,反向电流IR：4-50.5uA,反向电压VR:307.5-465.2V,抗静电水平从低温退火的6-12KV提高到15KV,经高温直流老化后,可靠性电参数水平满足预期的设计要求。     

Harmonic current reduction in a three-phase diode bridge rectifier

A novel method for reducing harmonic currents on the AC supply side of a three-phase bridge rectifier is presented. The principle of the method is to modify the current waveforms in the DC windings of the converter transformer by injecting a third harmonic current into the neutral point of the transformer. Passive LC filters connected between the rectifier output and the secondary neutral point act as third harmonic current sources. The effectiveness of the method is confirmed by laboratory recordings     

Modeling of substrate leakage currents in a high-voltage CMOS rectifier

In high-voltage (HV) CMOS integrated circuits (ICs), substrate leakage currents are important design considerations as they increase power consumption and the risk of latch-up. In safety critical applications, such as in biomedical implants, the problem is particularly important. Unfortunately, substrate leakage current paths are mainly formed by semiconductor process parasitic components, which are difficult to analyze accurately by SPICE schematic simulations. This paper presents a realistic modeling work about the substrate leakage currents in implantable HV ICs. As a case study, a rectifier prototype has been implemented in a 0.35-μm HV CMOS process. The simulations based on the models show good agreement with measurements on the experimental prototype.     

Property of selenium rectifier as a high-frequency capacitor

A wide-band capacitor utilizing a backward-biased selenium rectifier is reported. The capacitor is capable of covering a wide baseband frequency from low frequency to several hundred megahertz, and the series resonant frequency of the element having a capacitance of 0.01 µF exists above 100 MHz.     

Implementation of a three-level rectifier for power factorcorrection

In this paper, a new single-phase switching mode rectifier (SMR) for three-level pulse width modulation (PWM) is proposed to achieve high input power factor, low current harmonics, low total harmonic distortion (THD) and simple control scheme. The mains circuit of the proposed SMR consists of six power switches, one boost inductor, and two DC capacitors. The control algorithm is based on a look-up table. There are five control signals in the input of the look-up table. These control signals are used to control the power flow of the adopted rectifier, compensate the capacitor voltages for the balance problem, draw a sinusoidal line current with nearly unity power factor, and generate a three-level PWM pattern on the AC side of adopted rectifier. The advantages of using three-level PWM scheme compared with two-level PWM scheme are using low voltage stress of power switches, decreasing input current harmonics, and reducing the conduction losses. The performances of the proposed multilevel SMR are measured and shown in this paper. The high power factor and low harmonic currents at the input of the rectifier are verified by software simulations and experimental results from a laboratory prototype     

Design and evaluation of a cellular rectifier system withdistributed control

This paper presents the design and experimental evaluation of a six-cell 6 kW cellular (parallel) rectifier system which operates at nearly unity power factor. The cellular rectifier system implements both distributed load sharing and distributed ripple cancellation, eliminating the need for any centralized control. The implemented system mitigates some of the major drawbacks of its single-converter counterpart and achieves performance levels that cannot be achieved with an equivalent single converter     

Development and investigation of real-time robust algorithms for estimating the parameters of geometric transformations of video-sequence frames

The problem of estimating the parameters of geometric transformations of the frames in a video sequence is considered. The solution to this problem is found through a combination of three basic approaches: the optical-flow feature-point methods and the direct correlation methods. A procedure for the detailed analysis of the behavior of the correlation function is used to ensure stable real-time operation of the proposed algorithms on modern (even unspecialized) computing systems for a wide range of shooting conditions.     

Noise performance of frequency- and phase-locked CW magnetrons operated as current-controlled oscillators

Low-power continuous wave "cooker" magnetrons driven from industrial-quality switch-mode power supplies have been frequency locked by driving them as current-controlled oscillators in a phase-lock loop (PLL). The noise performance of these frequency-locked oscillators is reported as a function of heater power. The injection of -30- to -40dB signals derived from the reference oscillator of the PLL into the magnetron's output waveguide while the anode current is controlled by the PLL is shown to phase lock the magnetron's output. Results for locking performance are presented.     

A full-wave rectifier using a current conveyor and current mirrors

The realization of a full-wave rectifier using a current conveyor and current mirrors is presented. The proposed rectifier is composed of a voltage-to-current converter, a current mode full-wave rectifier, and a current-to-voltage converter. A voltage input signal is changed into a current signal by the voltage-to-current converter. The current mode full-wave rectifier rectifies this current signal resulting in the current full-wave output signal that is converted into a voltage full-wave output signal by one grounded-resistor. The theory of operation is described. The simulation and experiment results are used to verify the theoretical prediction. Simulated results show that the proposed rectifier yields the minimum voltage rectification to 94µV. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the proposed rectifier for 50mV_peak signal rectification.     

Study of a modified-estimating automaton in stationary environments

The application of digital stochastic computing techniques to the hardware implementation of a modified-estimating automaton is considered. Experimental results are presented for the automaton operating in stationary stochastic environments.     

Performance of anM-ary orthogonal communication system using stationary stochastic signals

This paper considers the performance of a communication system which transmits forTseconds the real part of a sample function of one ofMstationary complex Gaussian processes whose spectral densities are all frequency translations of the functionS_{xi (f). At the receiver white Gaussian noise of one-sided densityN_{0}is added. The center frequencies of the processes are assumed to be sufficiently separated that theMcovariance functions are orthogonal overT. Exponently tight bounds are obtained for the error probability of the maximum likelihood receiver. It is shown that the error probability approaches zero exponentially withTfor all ratesR = (ln M)/Tup toC= int_{-infty}^{infty} [S_{xi (f)/N_{0}] df - int_{- infty}^{infty} ln [1 + S_{xi}(f)/N_{0}] dfwhich is shown to be the channel capacity. Similar results are obtained for the case of stochastic signals with specular components.     

Dynamic and steady state analysis of a three phase buck rectifier

Current source rectifiers among other alternatives, offer several advantages over line commutated rectifiers. Advantages include displacement power factor control and reduced line current harmonic distortion. This paper analyzes the current source rectifier (CSR) in transient and steady state, the models are developed in a synchronous reference frame. The load behavior is characterized for two load conditions, resistive load or, in general, increasing current for increasing voltage, and constant output power, decreasing output current for increasing voltage. Constant power operation can occur for a converter system supplying a pulse width modulation (PWM) inverter with high dynamics. Several static converter characteristics such as power factor, real and reactive power are analyzed for both types of load. Transient characteristics are analyzed for both types of load by exact small-signal model with full set of equations