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Fast transient response based on digital single-cycle charge regulation (SCCR) control

  • Lingyun Li (National ASIC System Engineering Research Center, Southeast University) ;
  • Shen Xu (National ASIC System Engineering Research Center, Southeast University) ;
  • Limin Yu (National ASIC System Engineering Research Center, Southeast University) ;
  • Weifeng Sun (National ASIC System Engineering Research Center, Southeast University)
  • Received : 2022.10.18
  • Accepted : 2023.03.06
  • Published : 2023.09.20
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Abstract

The Buck converter is a commonly used voltage regulator (VR) structure that supplies power to the load devices and responds to load transients. In most of the applications, the VR is controlled by voltage or current mode control, and some nonlinear approaches are used to improve the transient response which brings more complexities to the closed loop design. To achieve a fast transient response without over-regulation under a load step transient, this paper proposes a digital single-cycle regulation (SCCR) controller, which comprised a fast path, a slow path, and a neutralization path. Unlike the conventional PID control, the neutralization path of the SCCR controller is used to offset the excessive energy change in the first cycle after a load step occurs, which makes the inductor current reach its new static condition in a shorter period of time. The mathematical model of the SCCR control is established in this paper and a scanning algorithm is proposed for the design of the compensator parameters. Experimental results are presented to verify the improvement of the transient response when compared to the conventional and nonlinear PID control, the recovery time is decreased by 64.3% and 43% for load step-up and step-down when compared with nonlinear PID control.

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Acknowledgement

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (62171122) and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20201146).

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