This paper proposes a new passive snubber for enhancing the power conversion efficiency on a single phase ac-dc power factor correction (PFC) converter based on boost topology for battery charging systems. Soft switching can be achieved in the proposed converter with the proposed auxillary passive snubber circuit which is added to the conventional boost PFC converter. The converter switch is pr...

a log-domain current-mode true rms-to-dc converter based on a novel synthesis of a simplified current-mode low pass filter and a two-quadrant squarer/divider is presented. the circuit employs floating gate mos (fg-mos) transistors operating in weak inversion region. the converter features low power(<1.5uw), low supply voltage (0.9v), two quadrant input current, immunity from body effect, low ci...

A novel rectifier topology for high power (0.5 to 10 MVA) current source based ac motor drives is proposed. This rectifier is composed of a multi-winding transformer, a multi-level diode rectifier and a modified multi-level buck converter. The rectifier produces near unity input power factor and sinusoidal input current under any operating conditions. In addition, the proposed rectifier feature...

For radio frequency energy transmission, the conversion efficiency of the receiver is decisive not only for reducing sending power, but also for enabling energy transmission over long and variable distances. In this contribution, we present a passive RF-DC converter for energy harvesting at ultra-low input power at 868 MHz. The novel converter consists of a reactive matching circuit and a combi...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract One of the main disadvantages of the buck converter and the interleaved buck converter is the narrow duty cycle which limits the application of the converters for high step-down applications. The interleaved buck converter with high conversion rati...

Time interleaved sigma-delta converter is a potential candidate for multi-mode wideband analog to digital (A/D) converters dedicated for multistandard receivers. However, the interpolation by zeros recquired to compress the useful signal bandwidth at the input of the sigma-delta modulator imposes constraints on the implementation of the analog part leading to a very large die area due to the hi...

This paper presents a novel configuration of separate zigzag transformers based 18-pulse AC –DC converter for improving the ripple factor & isolation of three phase uncontrolled rectifier, this approach eliminates the complexity required to design a complicated auto transformers or isolated multi winding transformer as used with other systems. The paper also presents the comparison among 12 pul...

An all-digital PWM-based delta-sigma (ΔΣ) ADC is proposed. This system takes advantages of the duration of a pulse, rather than voltage or current, as the analog operand used in its closed-loop operation. Unlike VCO-based ADCs, this ADC as a linear input sampling stage with adequate uncalibrated performance. Furthermore, the architecture allows inherently matched multi-bit quantizer/DAC blocks ...