Asymmetry in power circuit layout, mismatch in gate drive circuits, and lack of carefully matched device selection commonly result in dynamic and static current mismatch during parallel operation of IGBT devices. This paper is aimed at presenting a technique for actively controlling the gate drive of the IGBT to ensure appropriate current sharing under transient and steady state conditions. The...

This paper presents design and implementation of an Integrated Boost Resonant Converter (IBR) incorporated with Hybrid Frequency Modulation for photovoltaic applications. The designed Integrated Boost Resonant Converter employs a unique modulation method for extending the input range of Pulse-Width Modulation, low component count, galvanic isolation, simple control and high efficiency across a ...

A 2.5 GS/s flash ADC, fabricated in 90nm CMOS utilizes comparator redundancy to avoid traditional power, speed and accuracy trade-offs. The redundancy removes the need to control comparator offsets, allowing the large process-variation induced mismatch of small devices in nanometer technologies. This enables the use of small-sized, ultra-low-power comparators with clock-gating capabilities in o...

This paper introduces three popular analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architectures to readers: the flash ADC, the multi-step flash ADC, and the pipeline ADC. The fundamental operating principles of these three architectures are described. The specific topic of interest of this paper is methods of improving ADC accuracy. For the flash ADC, the concept of 2X interpolation to increase ADC resolut...

Economic dispatch problem (EDP) has become more complex and challenging in power systems due to the introduction of smart grids. In a smart grid, it’s expensive and unreliable for the existing centralized controller to achieve a minimum cost when generating a certain amount of power. In this work, we define a quadratic cost function and comprehensive constraints to improve the consensus algorit...

The energy efficiency of battery-operated portable applications can be improved by increasing the efficiency of power amplifiers (PAs). By dynamically changing the supply voltage from the fixed battery supply using a DC-DC converter, the PA can be operated with high efficiency during power back-off. This paper presents the system level requirements for a buck converter and other blocks in a dyn...

The design of reconfigurable active antennas requires an efficient system simulation in order to analyze the impact of other components on the array pattern, especially the Power Amplifiers (PA) effect. Therefore, the performance prediction of PA on Tx-Rx chains is important. This paper presents a behavioral model of a PA, which is able to take into account the load impedance mismatch with a VS...

This companion paper suggests the potential benefits of applying Steven Lukes’ dimensions of power model to the study of corruption in health systems. Lukes’ model sets out three “faces of power” classified by their influence on political discourse, resulting in overt, covert and latent discussion of issues depending on the degree of their alignment with the agenda of d...