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Improvement of Initial Operating Characteristics of SCALDO Regulator by Pre-charger

사전충전모드를 통한 SCALDO 레귤레이터의 초기 동작특성 개선

  • Received : 2016.08.10
  • Accepted : 2016.09.14
  • Published : 2016.09.30
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Abstract

A SCALDO(Supercapacitor Assisted LDO) regulator is a newly studied regulator to improve the efficiency of a LDO regulator. Commonly a LDO regulator has very low efficiency and a SCALDO regulator can improve it considerably because this regulator can reuse meaninglessly wasted energy at the LDO regulator by a supercapacitor witch is attached between input and a LDO regulator. However this regulator has several challenges because it is a being studied regulator. One of them is an overvoltage issue. At initial operating of this regulator, a supercapacior is totally discharged and input is connected with a supercapacitor and a LDO regulator in series. Thus, input voltage is enabled to a LDO regulator and this input voltage is a significant value to a LDO regulator because commonly input voltage is bigger than twice output voltage. In this paper, to solve this overvoltage issue, we proposed a new SCALDO regulator that has a pre-charger for charging a supercapacitor before starting operation. And we found that a proposed SCALDO regulator can properly reduce overvoltage of a LDO regulator through experiments.

SCALDO(Supercapacitor Assisted LDO) 레귤레이터는 기존 LDO(Low Drop-out) 레귤레이터(이하 LDO)의 낮은 효율을 개선하기 위해 연구되고 있는 회로로서, 회로의 입력단과 LDO사이에 슈퍼커패시터를 부착하여 입력과 출력 전압의 차이에 의해 발생하는 불필요한 전력손실을 재사용함으로써 LDO의 효율을 향상시킬 수 있다. 하지만 SCALDO 레귤레이터는 현재 연구 중에 있는 회로로 몇 가지 개선되어야 할 사항들이 남아있다. 그 중 한 가지는 회로의 최초동작 시 LDO에 인가되는 과전압문제이다. 회로의 최초동작 시 슈퍼커패시터가 완전히 방전되어 있어 충전모드 시 입력과 슈퍼커패시터, LDO가 직렬로 연결되는 SCALDO 레귤레이터 특성 상 입력전압이 LDO에 짧은 시간동안 그대로 인가되는데, 입력전압이 출력전압보다 최소 2배 이상 크기 때문에 이는 LDO에 상당히 큰 부담이 될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 과전압 문제를 해소하기 위해 회로 동작 전 슈퍼커패시터를 충전시킬 수 있는 사전충전부가 포함된 새로운 SCALDO 레귤레이터를 제안하였으며, 실험을 통해 동작 초기 LDO에 인가되는 과전압이 상당부분 감소됨을 확인하였다.

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