This paper presents a decentralized control method for distributed generations (DGs) in an islanded direct current (DC) microgrid. In most typical DC microgrids, a decentralized control method is based on a voltage droop control method. However, the grid voltage differs from node to node due to line voltage drop, and hence the power sharing ratio among DGs cannot be matched with as desired valu...

Buses of CMOS VLSI Circuits Harish Kriplani, Farid Najm and Ibrahim Hajj Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract: This paper summarizes the main developments of our on going study at University of Illinois on the maximum voltage drop estimation in power and ground buses of CMOS VLSI circuits. Voltage drops occurring in the supply li...

This work proposes a high step-up interleaved dc/dc topology utilizing a VM (voltage multiplier) cell suitable for PV applications. The VM cells D/C (Diode/Cap.) are cascaded among the phases to approach a high voltage gain. Besides, the voltage converting ratio of the presented structure can be improved by extending the VM cells and it also leads to drop in the normalized voltage stress throug...

The electro-spraying process can be regular and periodic, consisting of cyclical phases of initiation (meniscus, drop, and/or jet), pulsation, deformation and separation. This paper presents an experimental study on the repetition frequency of drop and/or jet ejection from the capillary end with various spraying modes during an electro-spraying process of deionized (DI) water. The influence of ...

This paper proposes a method to reduce the supply voltage IR drop of 3D stacked-die systems by implementing an on-chip Buck Converter on Top die (BCT) scheme. The IR drop is caused by the parasitic resistance of Through Silicon Vias (TSV’s) used in the 3D integration. The IR drop reduction and the overhead associated with the BCT scheme are modeled and analyzed. A 3D stacked-die system is manuf...

Introduction The important considerations in the design and operation of a transmission line are the determination of voltage drop, line losses and efficiency of transmission. These values are greatly influenced by the line constants R, L and C of the transmission line. For instance, the voltage drop in the line depends upon the values of above three line constants. Similarly, the resistance of...

In order to solve the stability problems and increase the PSRR performance of the Low Drop-out Voltage (LDO) a novel technique is presented. The main purpose of this work was to obtain a high PSRR, high power efficiency with a low load current. To achieve this, several techniques such as Nested Miller Compensation (NMC), Pole-Zero Tracking Frequency Compensation (PZTFC) and Single Miller Compen...

This paper presents an experimental framework to describe the dynamic behavior of brushless direct current (BLDC) motors, which are frequently used in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. Typically these applications require varying the angular speeds of motors which have to be precise parts of the dynamic model. The experimental setup is a motor/propeller pair equipped with an electroni...

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the power-supply voltage (IR) drop scaling in DSM technologies. For the first time, the effects of temperature, electromigration and interconnect technology scaling (including resistivity increase of Cu interconnects due to electron surface scattering and finite barrier thickness) are taken into consideration during this analysis. It is shown that the ...