Active filters provide significant harmonic and reactive power compensation and are thereby widely accepted as devices for power quality enhancement.. Many research works have been done to improve the dynamic performance of active filters. Current research work focuses on implementing a Minimally Switched Shunt Active Power filter for power quality enhancement. Minimally switched grid interacti...

Power consumption becomes an important issue for modern processors. The off-chip buses consume considerable amount of total power [9,7]. One effective way to reduce power is to reduce the overall bus switching activities since they are proportional to the power. Up till now, the most effective technique in reducing the switching activities on the data buses is Frequent Value Encoding (FVE) that...

This paper presents the numerical design algorithm for the class-DE amplifier, taking into account optimized resonant inductor designs. The proposed design algorithm provides the element values for satisfying the class-E switching conditions. Simultaneously, the optimal inductors, which have a minimum volume for achieving the permissible power conversion efficiency, can be obtained. By carrying...

A low-power fully-integrated type-2 4'h-order 1.7GHz CMOS frequency synthesizer for DCS1800 application is designed and simulated in a 0.25pm process technology. The frequency switching is achieved using a novel architecture exploiting a direct digital synthesis (DDS) device as the frequency reference. The new topology significantly lowers the undesired sideband power due to divider ratio switc...

A low-power fully-integrated type-2 4-order 1.7GHz CMOS frequency synthesizer for DCS-1800 application is designed and simulated in a 0.25μm process technology. The frequency switching is achieved using a novel architecture exploiting a direct digital synthesis (DDS) device as the frequency reference. The new topology significantly lowers the undesired sideband power due to divider ratio switch...

We investigate the power and size performance of unit root tests when the true data generating process undergoes Markov regime-switching. All tests, including those robust to a single break in trend growth rate, have very low power against a process with a Markov-switching trend growth rate as in Lam (1990). However, for the case of business cycle non-linearities, unit root tests are very power...

This paper discusses the Dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) operation and control for Voltage sags compensation. DVR is a series connected power electronic based device that can quickly mitigate the voltage sags in the system and restore the load voltage to the pre-fault value. Voltage sag associated with faults in transmission and distribution systems, energizing of transformers, and starting of l...

This paper discusses the characteristics of powerfactor-correction (PFC) switching regulators of non-cascading structures in terms of efficiency, input current harmonic distortion, and load transient response. The discussion begins with simplified power flow diagrams of the non-cascading PFC switching regulators and describes their essential features for achieving power factor correction and ti...

An improved topology of a voltage-fed quasi-resonant soft switching LCrCdc series-parallel half bridge inverter with a constant-frequency for electronic ballast applications is proposed in this paper. This new topology introduces a low-cost solution to reduce switching losses and circuit rating to achieve high-efficiency ballast. Switching losses effect on ballast efficiency is discussed throug...