Recent environmental issues have accelerated the use of more efficient and energy saving technologies in renewable energy systems. High power high efficiency boost DC/DC converters for the use in photovoltaic, fuel cell systems are discussed in this paper from the viewpoint of power losses and efficiency. State of the art converters with switching frequency within the range of 25 kHz with IGBTs...

Distributed power systems are prevalent in telecommunications, networking, and high-end server applications and generally utilize a 48 V bus voltage adopted from the telecom industry. From the 48 V bus, a number of isolated point of load (POL) converters power the end loads, with isolation being required for safety. The traditional distributed power architecture (DPA), shown in figure 1(a), use...

Switched-capacitor DC-DC converters are useful alternatives to inductor-based converters in many lowpower and medium-power applications. This work develops a straightforward analysis method to determine a switched-capacitor converter’s output impedance (a measure of performance and power loss). This resistive impedance is a function of frequency and has two asymptotic limits, one corresponding ...

In signal processing circuits of a RDIF tag, the relaxation of restriction concerning operating voltage range enables us to develop various applications. In order to provide higher voltage to the signal processing circuit, two types of step-up AC-DC converters for RFID tags are proposed in this paper: the step-up converter and the step-up converter. To reduce ripple noise of output voltage, the...

This review paper studies nonlinear dynamics of parallel dc–dc converters and its practical applications. First, we introduce a single dc–dc converter which is a building block of the parallel system. Using a simple model of piecewise constant vector field, we show that the converters exhibit rich bifurcation phenomena including chaos and complicated superstable periodic orbits. We then introdu...

Absstract-The control of switching dc-dc converters is reviewed. Regarding it as a general linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem, an innovative optimal and robust digital controller is proposed. The control strategy adopted can achieve good regulation, rejection of modest disturbances, and more significantly, the ability to cater to switching converters with RHP zeroes. This controller desig...

Some comparative studies of several nonlinear control techniques applied to dc-dc power converters are developed in this paper, like for instance the Immersion & Invariance, Passivity-Based Control, Feedback Linearization and the Sliding-Mode Control. All these different control strategies are used to drive dc-dc power converters in a dc microgrid. The load, modeled as a Constant Power Load typ...

S mall-signal analysis of switching dc-dc converters determines their specific transfer functions, for example, for stability analysis or design of a proper input filter. Transfer functions of interest for switching dc-dc converters are input impedance , output impedance, duty cycle (or control voltage) to output voltage, and input voltage to output voltage. Two pieces of literature about accom...