This work is about the analysis of dead time variation on switching losses in a Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) synchronous buck converter (SBC) circuit. In high frequency converter circuits, switching losses are commonly linked with high and low side switches of SBC circuit. They are activated externally by the gate driver circuit. The duty ratio, dead time and resonant inductor are the parameter...

The paper presents a new methodology for optimizing the design of DC-DC converters. The magnitudes that we take into account are efficiency, ripples, bandwidth, and RHP zero placement. We apply a geometric programming approach, because the variables are positives and the constraints can be expressed in a posynomial form. This approach has all the advantages of convex optimization. We apply the ...

This paper aims to design a PID compensator for the control of Synchronous Rectifier (SR) Buck Converter to improve its conversion efficiency under different load conditions. Since the diode rectifier is replaced by a high frequency MOSFET switch, the SR control method itself will be sufficient under heavy load condition, to attain better normal mode performance. However, this technique does no...

The buck or step-down DC-DC converter is the workhorse switching power supply topology. It utilizes two switches (two FETS or one FET and one diode) along with an output inductor and output capacitor. Whether you look at a large computer server, a personal desktop or a laptop computer, a cell phone or a GPS unit all will contain a buck converter in one form or another. This paper will discuss t...

In this paper, KY converter and voltage gain enhanced KY converter are included. A KY converter is a voltage step up converter, it can be considered as a buck converter along with synchronous rectification. In general, a KY converter consists of two MOSFET switches. To obtain higher voltage gain we can adopt different methods. Some of these techniques, advantages and disadvantages of each metho...

This paper presents a small-scale prototype of a wind-photovoltaic hybrid system, having batteries as energy storage components. All devices are connected to a common dc-bus using appropriate power converters. The photovoltaic modules are connected through a dc-dc buck converter using Perturb and Observe Maximum Power Point Tracking control. The permanent magnet synchronous generator (wind gene...

This work presents the analysis of radiated EMI problems associated with DC-DC buck converters and the solutions for minimize the reverse recovery of the Drain-Bulk diode of the synchronous switching MOSFET. The DC-DC buck converter topology is used in computers and telecom applications because of its high power efficiency and multiple DC levels. For reducing the reverse recovery and its relate...

This paper presents the system for evaluation of a depletion-mode silicon carbide (SiC) power junction field-effect transistor (JFET). The main part of the system is a dc-dc step-down converter which simulates realistic operating conditions of switching devices in a synchronous buck configuration. In order to ensure a proper operation of the synchronous buck converter test board, a precise time...

This thesis presents the theory, design, layout and a proposal for measurement set up of a synchronous DC-DC buck converter. This converter will be used as the supply modulator of power amplifier of mobile phones. The design is done using 45nm CMOS technology. Pmos and nmos switches are synchronously turns on and off for DC voltage conversion. Second order LC type filter is used to filter out t...