A method to eliminate the effect of capacitor mismatch for a switched-capacitor DAC is described. The method consists of two elements. The first element is the use of a compensating switching algorithm, which can eliminate the effect of capacitor mismatch only for some digital input values. The second element is that each digital word is written as the sum of two other words for which the capac...

Introduction: Sample-and-hold (S/H) is an important analog building block with many applications, including analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and switched-capacitor filters. The function of the S/H circuit is to sample an analog input signal and hold this value over a certain length of time for subsequent processing. Taking advantages of the excellent properties of MOS capacitors and switches...

Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter: Superior where the Buck Converter has Dominated

BAWA, GAURAV. Switched-Capacitor Filter Based Type-III Compensation for VoltageMode Control of Switched-Mode Buck Converters. (Under the direction of Dr. Alex Q. Huang). In this dissertation, we propose a novel technique for the voltage-mode control of switchedmode fixed-frequency Buck Converters using Switched-Capacitor Filters (SCF). The salient features of the analog sampled-data Type-III fi...

Switched capacitor converters play an important role in various applications power electronics. Voltage equalizers are one of them, and have been applied for partial shading compensation photovoltaic systems. In other works, the switched capacitor, improved with addition a small inductor, becoming resonant converter many advantages compared to capacitor. However, this can still be aspects, rath...

Multilevel inverters (MLIs) with switched-capacitor (SC) units have been a widely rehearsed research topic in power electronics since the last decade. Inductorless/transformerless operation voltage-boosting feature and inherent capacitor self-voltage balancing performance reduced electromagnetic interference make SC-MLI an attractive converter over other available counterparts for various appli...

The implementation of analog CMOS circuits that operate in the very low power supply voltage range (1 V to 2 V) becomes more important nowadays. Most accurate filter circuits are designed in the switched-capacitor technique. The existing design techniques require, however, the on-chip generation of a higher voltage by means of a voltage multiplier. In this paper, a novel technique, derived from...

In this paper, a 0.18-V input three-stage charge pump circuit applying forward body bias is proposed for energy harvesting applications. In the developed charge pump, all the MOSFETs are forward body biased by using the inter-stage/output voltages. By applying the proposed charge pump as the startup in the boost converter, the kick-up input voltage of the boost converter is reduced to 0.18 V. T...

The realization of line and load regulation in switchedcapacitor (SC)-based converters is discussed. A duty-cycle control is based on partial charging of the capacitors in the circuit. The influence on the efficiency is pointed out. The use of inductors in SC-based converters is discussed.