In this paper, a boost converter with a clamp circuit is proposed for high intensity discharge (HID) lamp application. The clamp circuit provides zero voltage turn on for both main and clamp switches. Compared to conventional boost converters, the proposed converter has the following advantages: (i) high voltage gain without suffering from extreme duty ratio, (ii) low stress on the switches and...

In this paper, a series Z-source inverter based on switched inductors cell is proposed for the first time. This inverter is able to increase the voltage gain in comparison to the conventional Z–source inverters in additon to solve the ST (shoot-through) state’s problems. In this inverter, the value of voltage gain is increased by increasing the number of used diodes and inductors in the switche...

Class-AB circuits, which are able to deal with currents several orders of magnitude larger than their quiescent current, are good candidates for low-power and high slew-rate analog design. This paper presents a novel topology of a class AB flipped voltage follower (FVF) that has better slew rate and the same power consumption as the conventional class-AB FVF buffer previously presented in liter...

In this paper, a new high efficiency, high step-up, non-isolated, interleaved DC-DC converter for renewable energy applications is presented. In the suggested topology, two modified step-up KY converters are interleaved to obtain a high conversion ratio without the use of coupled inductors. In comparison with the conventional interleaved DC-DC converters such as boost, buck-boost, SEPIC, ZETA a...

This paper presents the concept and results of a novel resonant DC-DC converter which achieves high voltage gain at low number utilized switches, stress on transistors, ZVS ZCS operation, efficiency variable gain. The uses switched-capacitors (SC) circuits with five switches allows it to reach six-fold By application adequate switching patterns, seven levels adjustment can be achieved. basic op...

A zero voltage switching (ZVS) dc–dc converter with high voltage gain is proposed. It consists of a ZVS boost switch cell converter stage and a ZVS half-bridge converter stage with resonant converter and all these stages are merged into a single stage. The ZVS boost converter stage provides a continuous input current and ZVS operation of the power switches. The ZVS halfbridge converter stage pr...

in this paper, a low voltage and low power (lv/lp) operational transconductance amplifier (ota) using fgmos (floating-gate mos) transistor is proposed. the relative tuning range of 50 is achieved in this ota while only consumes 40 µw with 1.0 v supply voltage in tsmc 0.18 µm cmos technology. the simulation results of the proposed ota show an open loop gain of 30.2 db and a unity gain frequency ...