• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.76-87
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• 2017

Finite-set predictive current control (FS-PCC) is advantageous for power converters due to its high dynamic performance and has received increasing interest in multilevel inverters. Among multilevel inverter topologies, the cascaded H-bridge (CHB) inverter is popular and mature in the industry. However, a main drawback of FS-PCC is its large computational burden, especially for the application of CHB inverters. In this paper, an FS-PCC method based on a deadbeat solution for three-phase zero-common-mode-voltage CHB inverters is proposed. In the proposed method, an inverse model of the load is utilized to calculate the reference voltage based on the reference current. In addition, a cost function is directly expressed in the terms of the voltage errors. An optimal control actuation is selected by minimizing the cost function. In the proposed method, only three instead of all of the control actuations are used for the calculations in one sampling period. This leads to a significant reduction in computations. The proposed method is tested on a three-phase 5-level CHB inverter. Simulation and experimental results show a very similar and comparable control performance from the proposed method compared with the traditional FS-PCC method which evaluates the cost function for all of the control actuations.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1999년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.650-654
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• 1999

In this paper, author describe the simulation results concerning the period doubling bifurcation route to chaos of DC/DC boost converter under current mode control to show that it is common phenomena on switching regulator when parameters are improperly chosen or continuously varied beyond the ensured region by system designer. Bifurcation diagrams of periodic orbits of inductor current and capacitor voltage of DC/DC boost converter are plotted with sampled data at moment of each clock pulse causing switching on. DC/DC boost converter studied on this paper is modelled by its state space equations as per switching condition under continuous conduction mode. Current reference signal and capacitance are chosen as the bifurcation parameters and those are varied in step for iterative calculation to find bifurcation points of periodic orbits of state variables.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.1030-1033
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• 2002

This paper, a new simple controller operates in continuous conduction mode (CCM) for Boost power factor collection converter is introduced. The duty ratios are obtained by comparisons of a sensed signal from inductor current and a negative ramp carrier waveform in each switching period. By using the proposed controller, input voltage sensing, error amplifier in the current feedback loop, and analog multiplier／divider are not required, then, the control circuit implementation is very simple. To verify the proposed controller, the circuit simulation for Boost power factor correction converter was applied. For the results, the input current waveform was shaped to be closely sinusoidal, implying low THD.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.373-380
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• 2018

This study proposes a new islanding detection method that uses the phase shift of feed-forward voltage and evaluates the performance of an existing method and the proposed method when the grid frequency changes within the allowable range under steady-state conditions. The investigated existing method, which is slip mode frequency shift (SMS), uses current phase shift to detect islanding. The SMS method supplies reactive current to the grid under this condition, but the proposed method does not generate additional reactive power because it does not depend on the current control loop. The performance in steady-state grid condition is evaluated through simulations and experiments.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1458-1469
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• 2018

This paper proposes a novel common-mode voltage (CMV) elimination (CMV-EL) method based on model predictive control (MPC) to eliminate CMV for three-level T-type inverters (3LT2Is). In the proposed MPC method, only six medium and one zero voltage vectors (VVs) (6MV1Z) that generate zero CMV are considered as candidates to perform the MPC. Moreover, the influence of dead-time effects on the CMV of the MPC-based 6MV1Z method is investigated, and the candidate VVs are redesigned by pre-excluding the VVs that will cause CMV fluctuations during the dead time from 6MV1Z. Only three or five VVs are included to perform optimization in every control period, which can significantly reduce the computational complexity. Thus, a small control period can be implemented in the practical applications to achieve improved grid current performance. With the proposed CMV-EL method, the CMV of the $3LT^2Is$ can be effectively eliminated. In addition, the proposed CMV-EL method can balance the neutral point potentials (NPPs) and yield satisfactory performance for grid current tracking in steady and dynamic states. Simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.675-681
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• 2016

A 41dB gain control range $6^{th}$-order band-pass receiver front-end (RFE) using CMOS switched frequency translated impedance (FTI) is presented in a 40 nm CMOS technology. The RFE consists of a frequency tunable RF band-pass filter (BPF), IQ gm cells, and IQ TIAs. The RF BPF has wide gain control range preserving constant filter Q and pass band flatness due to proposed pre-distortion scheme. Also, the RF filter using CMOS switches in FTI blocks shows low clock leakage to signal nodes, and results in low common mode noise and stable operation. The baseband IQ signals are generated by combining baseband Gm cells which receives 8-phase signal outputs down-converted at last stage of FTIs in the RF BPF. The measured results of the RFE show 36.4 dB gain and 6.3 dB NF at maximum gain mode. The pass-band IIP3 and out-band IIP3@20 MHz offset are -10 dBm and +12.6 dBm at maximum gain mode, and +14 dBm and +20.5 dBm at minimum gain mode, respectively. With a 1.2 V power supply, the current consumption of the overall RFE is 40 mA at 500 MHz carrier frequency.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제43권11호
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• pp.98-104
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• 2006

기존의 버스트 모드 자동전력제어 회로는 저 전력과 단일 칩화에 적합한 효율적인 구조인 반면에 데이터 율(data rate)이 높아짐에 따라 영의 밀도(zero density) 영향을 심하게 받아 에러를 야기하였다. 본 논문에서는 더블 게이트 MOS와 MOS다이오드를 이용하여 주입전류의 불균형을 보상하는 할 수 있는 새로운 구조의 첨두 비교기를 고안하고 이를 자동전력제어 회로에 적용하여 높은 데이터 율에서도 영의 밀도 변화에 강한 버스트 모드 자동전력제어 회로를 제안하였다. 제안한 자동전력제어 회로 내의 첨두 비교기는 높은 데이터 율에서 영의 밀도 변화에도 불구하고 정확한 전류비교 기준점을 견지하며 에러 없이 정상동작 하였다. 또한 제안한 첨두 비교기는 저전력 구조이고 대용량의 커패시터가 사용되지 않아 단일 칩화에도 적합하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2010

In this paper, a simple yet efficient auto mode-hop ripple control structure for buck converters with light load operation enhancement is proposed. The converter, which operates under a wide range of input and output voltages, makes use of a state-dependent hysteretic comparator. Depending on the output current, the converter automatically changes the operating mode. This improves the efficiency and reduces the output voltage ripple for a wide range of output currents for given input and output voltages. The sensitivity of the output voltage to the circuit elements is less than 14%, which is seven times lower than that for conventional converters. To assess the efficiency of the proposed converter, it is designed and implemented with commercially available components. The converter provides an output voltage in the range of 0.9V to 31V for load currents of up to 3A when the input voltage is in the range of 5V to 32V. Analytical design expressions which model the operation of the converter are also presented. This circuit can be implemented easily in a single chip with an external inductor and capacitor for both fixed and variable output voltage applications.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.108-118
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• 2019

This paper proposes a DC-link voltage balance controller using the fourth-phase of a three-level neutral-point clamped (NPC) PWM converter with medium vector selection (MVS) PWM for common-mode voltage reduction. MVS PWM makes the voltage reference by synthesizing the voltage vectors that cannot generate common-mode voltage. This PWM method is effective for reducing the EMI noise emitted from converter systems. However, the DC-link voltage imbalance problem is caused by the use of limited voltage vectors. Therefore, in this paper, the effect of MVS PWM on the DC-link voltage of a three-level NPC converter is analyzed. Then a proportional-derivative (PD) controller for the DC-link voltage balance is designed from the DC-link modeling. In addition, feedforward compensation of the neutral point current is included in the proposed PD controller. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is verified by experimental results.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.864-870
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• 2017

본 논문은 넓은 부하 전류를 요구하는 휴대 기기에서 사용될 목적으로 주파수 전압 변환을 이용하여 모드 제어 가능한 듀얼 모드 벅 변환기를 설명한다. 기존의 히스테스테릭 벅 변환기의 문제인 저 부하에서의 PLL 보상 및 효율 저하를 제안하는 듀얼 벅 변환기의 개선된 PFM 모드를 통해 해결한다. 또한 기존의 듀얼 모드 벅 변환기의 주요 회로인 모드 제어기에서의 부하 변화 감지의 어려움과 느린 모드 전환 속도를 제안하는 모드 제어기로 개선 시킨다. 제안하는 모드 제어기는 최소 1.5us의 모드 전환 시간을 가진다. 제안하는 DC-DC 벅 변환기는 $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정에서 설계하였으며 칩 면적은 $1.38mm{\times}1.37mm$이다. 기생 소자를 포함한 인덕터와 커패시터를 고려한 후 모의실험 결과는 1~500mA의 부하 전류 범위에서 입력 전압을 2.7~3.3V를 가지며 PFM 모드는 65mV이내, 히스테리틱 모드에서는 고정된 스위칭 주파수 상태에서 16mV의 출력 리플 전압을 가지는 1.2V의 출력 전압을 생성한다. 제안하는 듀얼 모드 벅 변환기의 최대 효율은 80mA에서 95%를 나타내며 해당 전체 부하 범위에서 85% 이상의 효율을 지닌다.