Harvesting energy from the environment by using a thermoelectric generator (TEG) or photovoltaic cells provides a solution for battery-free sensor networks or electronic healthcare systems. In these systems, the harvested energy is supplied at a very low voltages, requiring a low-startup-voltage power circuit for kick-start from low voltage. A previous sub-100mV-startup-voltage boost converter ...

An electrical probe is constructed of a small capacitor in contact with the circuit node under test so as not to load this circuit node and cause distortion of the input signal. The small capacitor is then placed in series with the small input resistance of a terminated coaxial signal line. The voltage signal at the output of the coaxial line will be approximately the product of the small capac...

This paper presents a control scheme of cascaded H-bridge STATCOM in three-phase power systems. Cascaded H-bridge STATCOM has merits in point of switching losses, output harmonics, and the number of circuit components. But every H-bridge cell has isolated dc capacitors. So the balancing problem of capacitor voltages exists. Since STATCOM is often requested to operate under asymmetrical conditio...

This paper proposes a 1.5 V 12-b CMOS ratio-independent algorithmic analog-to-digital converter (ADC) based on a capacitor-mismatch insensitive technique. A novel switched-capacitor multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) with an accurate gain of two is proposed for an algorithmic ADC. The proposed MDAC architecture requires only one opamp in four phases to generate the next residue outp...

In this paper, a highly efficient and fast transient output capacitor-free low-dropout regulator (LDO) presented. The proposed LDO architecture is based on differential transconductance amplifiers pairing with push–pull stage to enable effective output driving capability. The slew rate at the gate of the output transistor ðSRGÞ is further enhanced by common mode-feedback (CMFB) resistors and a ...

Abstract: Owing to the problems of DC side capacitor value choice in the application of Active Power Filter (APF), this article presents a technique based on the analysis of the ripple voltage in DC side by graining appropriately the undulation control rate within the range of settings and control DC voltage so that the voltage fluctuation rate can reach minimum value under the condition of spe...

The aim of this paper is to identify an optimum control strategy of three-phase shunt active filters to minimize the total harmonic distortion factor of the supply current. A classical PIPI cascade control solution of the output current of the active filter and the voltage across the DC capacitor based on Modulus–Optimum criterion is taken into consideration. The control system operation has be...

Highlighting the dominance & supremacy of CMOS digital logic design over its counterparts & further coming up with a unique solution to minimize the power losses prevalent in switching implementations using CMOS, this brief introduces a novel SDLC (Switching-DiodeInductor-Capacitor) design. It presentsa design which in ideal case may lead to a circuit capable of performing logic operations with...

This paper proposes a new single phase transformerless Photovoltaic (PV) inverter for grid connected systems. It consists of six power switches, two diodes, one capacitor and filter at the output stage. The neutral of the grid is directly connected to the negative terminal of the source. This results in constant common mode voltage and zero leakage current. Model Predictive Controller (MPC) tec...