• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.265-271
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• 2018

DC-DC buck converter is a critical building block in the power management integrated circuit (PMIC) architecture for the portable devices such as cellular phone, personal digital assistance (PDA) because of its power efficiency over a wide range of conversion ratio. To ensure a safe operation, avoid unexpected damages and enhance the reliability of the converter, fully-integrated protection circuits such as over voltage protection (OVP), under voltage lock out (UVLO), startup, and thermal shutdown (TSD) blocks are designed. In this paper, these three fully-integrated protection circuit blocks are proposed for use in the DC-DC buck converter. The buck converter with proposed protection blocks is operated with a switching frequency of 1 MHz in continuous conduction mode (CCM). In order to verify the proposed scheme, the buck converter has been designed using a 180 nm CMOS technology. The UVLO circuit is designed to track the input voltage and turns on/off the buck converter when the input voltage is higher/lower than 2.6 V, respectively. The OVP circuit blocks the buck converter's operation when the input voltage is over 3.3 V, thereby preventing the destruction of the devices inside the controller IC. The TSD circuit shuts down the converter's operation when the temperature is over $85^{\circ}C$. In order to verify the proposed scheme, these protection circuits were firstly verified through the simulation in SPICE. The proposed protection circuits were then fabricated and the measured results showed a good matching with the simulation results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.340-341
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 높은 승 강압비를 갖는 양방향 DC-DC 컨버터에 대한 최적의 스위칭 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 컨버터는 CCM에서도 소프트 스위칭이 가능하여 스위칭 손실뿐만 아니라 인덕터의 발열도 줄일 수 있다. 또한 모든 소자의 전압 정격과 수동소자의 부피도 기존 양방향 컨버터 보다 작아 고효율 및 고전력밀도의 달성을 기대 할 수 있다. 1.5kW 시작품의 실험을 통해 본 논문의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.318-320
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• 2007

Single-phase cycloconverters are widely used for ac-ac power conversion especially for speed control of ac drives. In this paper, a new single-phase to single-phase Z-source cycloconverter topology is proposed. The proposed single-phase Z-source cycloconverter can boost to a desired voltage with various frequency. Thus, it is called a frequency step-down and amplitude voltage step-up converter. The operating principle of the proposed topology is presented. Analysis and simulation for this single-phase Z-source cycloconverter are also presented.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.23-24
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 하나의 입력으로 강압과 승압된 두 개의 출력을 가지는 승 강압 겸용 DC-to-DC 컨버터를 제안한다. 승압 출력이 가능한 컨버터는 기존의 부스트 컨버터와 동일한 구조이고, 강압 출력이 가능한 컨버터는 배터리의 직 병렬 가변 결합을 이용한다. 강압출력이 가능한 컨버터 동작에서 배터리는 강압 출력의 입력원이 되어 기존의 벅컨버터보다 2배 이상 강압 가능한 장점이 있다. 본 논문은 제안하는 승 강압 겸용 DC-to-DC 컨버터의 구조 및 동작 모드에 따른 이론적 분석을 시행하고 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 타당성을 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.435-439
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• 2002

This paper describes a design and fabrication of an electronic ballast for 70[W] ceramic discharge metal halide lamps. The proposed ballast is composed of a rectifier, an active power factor correction circuit (PFC), a half-bridge inverter, a LC resonant circuit and a microprocessor. The developed ballast also includes a specially designed time circuit which provides reignition of lamps. Running frequency of the ballast is set at 40[kHz] to avoid acoustic-resonance and flickering. From the experimental results, input power factor and efficiency of the ballast are estimated 99.8[%] and 93.1[%)] respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.273-276
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• 2005

This paper presents an electronic ballast using a step down converter, a low frequency inverter for high pressure discharge lamp. The proposed ballast is composed of a full-wave rectifier, a step down converter operated as a current source with power regulation and a low frequency inverter with ignition circuit. The ignition circuit generates high voltage pulse of 1${\sim}$2[kV] peak, 130[Hz]. Moreover, it is able to reignite at regular intervals by protective circuit. As experimental results on the test, lamp voltage, current and consumption power are measured 132.5[V], 7.6[A] and 1,005[W], respectively. It was confirmed that the designed ballast operate the lamp with a constant power.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.76-82
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• 2017

Since the introduction of electronically controlled engines and electric propulsion ships, the need for an uninterruptible power supply for emergency power supply devices that use batteries has gained importance. The bidirectional converter in such emergency power supply devices is a crucial component. This paper proposes, a topology for an improved DC-DC bidirectional converter that is characterized by a high voltage conversion ratio and low voltage stress of switches. To confirm the performance of the converter, a computer simulation was executed with PSIM software. The conversion ratio of the proposed converter was found to be four times higher than the conventional boost converter in step-up mode and one-fourth that of the conventional buck converter in step-down mode, and the voltage stress of the switches was one-fourth of the high-side voltage. Moreover, the proposed converter was confirmed to be able to distribute equal currents between two interleaved modules without using any extra current-sharing control method because of the charge balance of its blocking capacitors.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.98-103
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• 2012

This paper presents a digital pulse width modulator (DPWM) with a reduced digital modulation delay (a transport delay of the modulator) during the transient response of power converters. During the transient response operation of a power converter, as a result of dynamic variations such as load step-up or step-down, the closed loop controller will continuously adjust the duty cycle in order to regulate the output voltage. The larger the modulation delays, the larger the undesired output voltage deviation from the reference point. The three conventional DPWM techniques exhibit significant leading-edge and/or trailing-edge modulation delays. The DPWM technique proposed in this paper, which results in modulation delay reductions, is discussed, experimentally tested and compared with conventional modulation techniques.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.182-183
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• 2013

In the design of the fuel cell charger, it is important to find out the suitable topology and to design the converter to guarantee the performance of the fuel cell as well as the battery. Most of the chargers developed so far have used step-down converters. However, since the small fuel cell stack can only generate a low voltage, it is required to use the step-up converter to charge the battery. In this paper, a modified non-isolated boost charger topology for the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) is proposed to meet the strict ripple requirements for the battery charge and its control method by using PI controller is detailed. The feasibility of the proposed topology and its control method is then verified by the experiments.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.413-421
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• 2013

This paper proposes residential hybrid distribution system that can supply AC power and DC power to AC load and DC load at the same time. This hybrid distribution system consists of three parts: bidirectional inverter, step-up converter and step-down converter. Also that is used to supply voltage to home application is classified of AC load and DC load as load characteristics. The performance of proposed hybrid distribution system is validated through the hardware implementation and the experimental results.