Design and Analysis of Multiphase DC-DC Converters with Coupled Inductors. (May 2007) Meng Shi, B.Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Prasad Enjeti In this thesis, coupled inductors have been applied to multiphase DC-DC converters. Detailed analysis has been done to investigate the benefits of directly coupled inductors and inversely coupled inductors, co...

Switched-mode converters play now a significant role in modern society. Their operation are often crucial in various electrical applications affecting the every day life. Therefore, the quality of the converters needs to be reliably verified. Recent studies have shown that the converters can be fully characterized by a set of frequency responses which can be efficiently used to validate the pro...

We consider the problem of wavelength assignment in a reconfigurable bi-directional ring network with wavelength converters. We show that for N -node P -port bidirectional rings, a minimum number of PN/4 wavelengths are required to support all possible virtual topologies in a rearrangeably non-blocking fashion, and provide an algorithm that meets this bound for connected topologies using no mor...

BACKGROUND In household contact investigations of tuberculosis (TB), a second tuberculin skin test (TST) obtained several weeks after a first negative result consistently identifies individuals that undergo TST conversion. It remains unclear whether this delay in M. tuberculosis infection is related to differences in the infectious exposure, TST boosting, partial host resistance, or some other ...

Design-oriented analysis of switching converters must take into account how disturbances and variations in the input and control signals affect the optimum performance of these converters. Sate-space averaging of a nonideal boost converter is presented in this paper. DC state and small signal AC state modeling of the converter was derived. Determination of line-to-output transfer function, whic...

The small-signal modeling technique based on the extended describing function concept is applied to LCC resonant converters. The analytical model developed includes both frequency control and phase-shift control. The small-signal equivalent circuit models are also derived and implemented in PSPICE. The models are in good agreement with the measurement data. 1. INTRODUCTION An LCC resonant conve...

Buck, boost, and buck-boost converters constitute large class of dc-dc converters used in practice and are interesting nonlinear dynamical systems. It has been shown earlier that various nonlinear phenomena including subharmonics and chaos can be observed in these converters. In this paper we show that with the simplifying assumption that voltage regulation is achieved in high frequency modulat...

Averaged switch approach is extended to the modeling of boundary conduction mode (BCM) dc-to-dc converters that operate at the boundary between continuous conduction mode (CCM) and discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). BCM dc-to-dc converters have smaller inductor size and reduced switching losses compared to CCM, and lower peak current compared to DCM. The large-signal BCM averaged switch model...

A previous article has presented the members of the asymmetrical interleaved dc/dc switching converters family as very appropriate candidates to interface between photovoltaic or fuel cell generators and their loads because of their reduced ripple and increased current processing capabilities. After a review of the main modeling methods suitable for high-order converters operating, as the asymm...

Wavelength converters simplify the wavelength assignment problem in virtual topology design in optical networks and increase the utilization of the fiber bandwidth. However, converters are costly, and minimizing the number of converters needed to support a given level of functionality has been investigated in the literature in various contexts. In particular, previous work has addressed the pro...