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http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/JEET.2016.11.1.125

An Efficient High Voltage Level Shifter using Coupling Capacitor for a High Side Buck Converter  

Seong, Kwang-Su (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Yeungnam University)
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Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology / v.11, no.1, 2016 , pp. 125-134 More about this Journal
Abstract
We propose an efficient high voltage level shifter for a high side Buck converter driving a light-emitting diode (LED) lamp. The proposed circuit is comprised of a low voltage pulse width modulation (PWM) signal driver, a coupling capacitor, a resistor, and a diode. The proposed method uses a property of a PWM signal. The property is that the signal repeatedly transits between a low and high level at a certain frequency. A low voltage PWM signal is boosted to a high voltage PWM signal through a coupling capacitor using the property of the PWM signal, and the boosted high voltage PWM signal drives a p-channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor on the high side Buck converter. Experimental results show that the proposed level shifter boosts a low voltage (0 to 20 V) PWM signal at 125 kHz to a high voltage (370 to 380 V) PWM signal with a duty ratio of up to 0.9941.
Keywords
Level shifter; High side buck converter; Coupling capacitor; DC distribution; LED lighting;
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