A High Step-Up DC/DC Switched-Capacitor Converter with Soft Switching and Regulated Output Voltage

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parisa Doaee ◽  
Reza Beiranvand
Keyword(s):  
Output Voltage ◽  
Soft Switching ◽  
Switched Capacitor ◽  
Switched Capacitor Converter

IMPROVEMENT OF POWER EFFICIENCY AND OUTPUT VOLTAGE RIPPLE OF EMBEDDED DC–DC CONVERTERS WITH THREE STEP DOWN RATIOS

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (01) ◽  
pp. 1250007 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAUSHIK BHATTACHARYYA ◽  
P. V. RATNA KUMAR ◽  
PRADIP MANDAL
Keyword(s):  
Power Efficiency ◽  
Output Voltage ◽  
Cmos Process ◽  
Switched Capacitor ◽  
Switching Scheme ◽  
Time Interleaving ◽  
Regulation Scheme ◽  
Voltage Ripple ◽  
Switched Capacitor Converter ◽  
On Chip

In this paper three embedded switched capacitor based DC–DC converters targeting Vdd/2, 2Vdd/3, and Vdd/3 output voltages have been designed with improved power efficiency and output voltage ripple. The performance of each of the converter is improved by nonoverlapped rotational time interleaving (NRTI) switching scheme. Current regulation scheme is included with each of the above NRTI switched capacitor converter to achieve better load and line regulation. The proposed converters are designed and simulated in a 0.18 μm n-well CMOS process with the total flying capacitance of 330 pF and load capacitor of 50 pF. The capacitance values are kept within on-chip implementable range. The maximum power efficiency and the output voltage ripple of the integrated NRTI DC–DC converters targeted for Vdd/2, 2Vdd/3 and Vdd/3 output generation are 71.5% and 5 mV, 69.23% and 13.27 mV and 58.09% and 10.5 mV, respectively.

scholarly journals Vertical Stacked LEGO-PoL CPU Voltage Regulator

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjie Chen
Keyword(s):  
Output Voltage ◽  
Input Voltage ◽  
Voltage Regulator ◽  
Switched Capacitor ◽  
Switched Capacitor Circuits ◽  
Coupled Inductors ◽  
Current Sharing ◽  
Charging Current ◽  
In Series ◽  
Switched Capacitor Converter

<div>This paper presents a 48 V–1 V merged-two-stage hybrid-switched-capacitor converter with a Linear Extendable Group Operated Point-of-Load (LEGO-PoL) architecture for ultra-high-current microprocessors, featuring 3-D stacked packaging and coupled inductors for miniaturized size and vertical power delivery. The architecture is highly modular and scalable. The switched capacitor circuits are connected in series on the input side to split the high input voltage into multiple stacked voltage domains. The multiphase buck circuits are connected in parallel to distribute the high output current into multiple parallel current paths. It leverages the advantages of switched capacitor circuits and multiphase buck circuits to achieve soft charging, current sharing, and voltage balancing. The inductors of the multiphase buck converters are used as current sources to soft-charge and soft-switch the switched-capacitor circuits, and the switched-capacitor circuits are utilized to ensure current sharing among the multiphase buck circuits. A 780 A vertical stacked CPU voltage regulator with a peak efficiency of 91.1% and a full load efficiency of 79.2% at an output voltage of 1 V with liquid cooling is built and tested. This is the first demonstration of a 48 V–1 V CPU voltage regulator to achieve over 1 A/mm2 current density and the first to achieve 1,000 W/in3 power density. It regulates output voltage between 0.8 V and 1.5 V through the entire 780 A current range.</div>

scholarly journals GaN-Based DC-DC Resonant Boost Converter with Very High Efficiency and Voltage Gain Control

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 6403
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Waradzyn ◽  
Robert Stala ◽  
Andrzej Mondzik ◽  
Aleksander Skała ◽  
Adam Penczek
Keyword(s):  
Output Voltage ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Voltage Regulation ◽  
Current Control ◽  
Maximum Efficiency ◽  
Switching Frequency ◽  
Switched Capacitor ◽  
Switching Patterns ◽  
Switched Capacitor Converter ◽  
Very High

This paper presents a concept for the operation of a resonant DC–DC switched-capacitor converter with very high efficiency and output voltage regulation. In its basic concept, such a converter operates as a switched-capacitor voltage doubler (SCVD) in the Zero Current Switching (ZCS) mode with a constant output voltage. The proposed methods of switching allow for the switched-capacitor (SC) converter output voltage regulation, and improve its efficiency by the operation with Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS). In this paper, various switching patterns are proposed to achieve high efficiency and the output voltage control by frequency or duty cycle regulation. Some examples of the application of the proposed switching patterns are presented: in current control at the start-up of the converter, in a bi-directional converter, and in a modular cascaded system. The paper also presents an analytical model as well as the relationships between the switching frequency, voltage ratio and efficiency. Further, it demonstrates the experimental verification of the waveforms, voltage ratios, as well as efficiency. The proposed experimental setup achieved a maximum efficiency of 99.228%. The implementation of the proposed switching patterns with the ZVS operation along with the GaN-based (Gallium Nitride) design, with a planar choke, leads to a high-efficiency and low-volume solution for the SCVD converter and is competitive with the switch-mode step-up converters.

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