• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.174-179
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• 2018

In this paper, design of high-efficiency DC-DC converter is presented for low-power PMIC (power management integrated circuit). As PMIC technologies for IoT and wearable devices have been continuously improved, high-efficiency energy harvesting schemes should be essential. Since the supply voltage resulting from energy harvesting is low and widely variable, design techniques to achieve high efficiency over a wide input voltage range are required. To obtain a constant switching frequency for wide input voltage range, frequency compensation circuit using supply-voltage variation sensing circuit is included. In order to obtain high efficiency performance at very low-power condition, accurate burst-mode control circuit was adopted to control switching operations. In the proposed DC-DC buck converter, output voltage is set to be 0.9V at the input voltage of 0.95~3.3V and maximum measured efficiency is up to 78% for the load current of 180uA.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.73-80
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• 2003

This Paper Proposes instantaneous following control method to control pulse modulation switching converter by using principle that reset time of integrator is inverse proportion in size of integrator input voltage. proposed control method acts of fixed frequency and control switch calculates time of become turn on and turn off using analog integrator. Duty ratio that express switching time of converter is depended on mean value of switching variable and following time consists in one cycle. Follow to do order exactly stationary state as well as transition state, and controller corrects mean value of control variable and control reference value and control as control error gets into zero. Proposed control method could experimented and know that experiment result and theory are agreeing well through this using the buck converter.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.04b
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• pp.115-117
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• 2009

본 논문은 단일 디지털 제어기를 이용하여 독립형 태양광 발진 시스템에 사용되는 태양전지에서 발생한 전력을 수집하고 필요에 따라 에너지 저장 장치에 전력을 저장하는 Boost 컨버터가 최대전력점에서 동작하도록 제어하면서, 이 전압을 부하에 필요한 전압 값으로 변환하는 Buck 컨버터를 동시에 제어하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 독립형 태양광 발전 시스템의 구성은 에너지를 발생하는 태양전지, 최대전력 점을 추종(MPPT)하도록 하는 Boost 컨버터, 부하에 적합한 준위의 전압을 공급하는 Buck 컨버터가 직렬로 연결되어 있다. 제안된 방법은 디지털 제어기의 제어변수 값들을 바꿈으로써 전체시스템의 출력특성을 쉽게 제어할 수 있어, 사용되는 태양전지 어레이의 종류와 환경조건 변화에 따라 쉽게 제어변수 값들을 조정할 수 있다. 또한 하나의 디지털 제어기로 최대전력점 제어부 및 Buck과 Boost 컨버터의 피드백 제어부를 구성하여 시스템의 구조가 간단해지기 때문에 소형 및 경량화를 이룰 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.601-602
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• 2008

This paper presents pulse-frequency modulation(PFM) to improve the light-load efficiency. The proposed circuit is designed by using the device parameter of standard $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS process. The performance of proposed circuit is evaluated by HSPICE simulation Measured efficiency in a light-load is measured 78-90 % for 0.1 to 100mA output current.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.86-90
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• 2001

This paper presents a multi output converter system that controls, simultaneously, the separate buck converter and boost converter with the different specification by one digital controller using fuzzy algorithm. As two separate converters are regulated by only one DSP, it is possible to achieve the simple digital control circuit for regulating multi output DC-DC converter. Inference procedure of fuzzy controller is included. The control characteristics of each PWM DC-DC converter is validated by experimental results.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.21-26
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• 2016

This paper presents a step-down DC-DC buck converter with a CCM/DCM dual-mode function for the internal power stage of portable electronic device. The proposed converter that is operated with a high frequency of 1 MHz consists of a power stage and a control block. The power stage has a power MOS transistor, inductor, capacitor, and feedback resistors for the control loop. The control part has a pulse width modulation (PWM) block, error amplifier, ramp generator, and oscillator. In this paper, an external capacitor for compensation has been replaced with a multiplier equivalent CMOS circuit for area reduction of integrated circuits. In addition, the circuit includes protection block, such as over voltage protection (OVP), under voltage lock out (UVLO), and thermal shutdown (TSD) block. The proposed circuit was designed and verified using a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process parameter by Cadence Spectra circuit design program. The SPICE simulation results showed a peak efficiency of 94.8 %, a ripple voltage of 3.29 mV ripple, and a 1.8 V output voltage with supply voltages ranging from 2.7 to 3.3 V.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1986.07a
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• pp.543-546
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• 1986

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.135-139
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• 2012

A digital controller can simply realize a complex operation algorithm and power control process which can not be applied by an analog circuit for a solar array regulator(SAR). The digital resistive control(DRC) makes an equivalent input impedance of the SAR be resistive characteristic. The resistance of the solar array varies largely in a voltage source region and slightly in a current source region. Therefore when the solar array regulator is controlled by the DRC, the Advanced Incremental Conductance MPPT Algorithm with a Variable Step Size(AIC-MPPT-VSS) is suitable. The AIC-MPPT-VSS, however, using small signal resistance and large signal resistance of the solar array can not limit the absolute value of the solar array power. In this paper, the solar array power limiter is suggested and the BUCK-BOOST type SAR which is fully controlled by the digital controller is verified by simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.449-450
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 MOSFET의 전계효과를 이용하여 LED 조명용 전력변환기 출력의 전류 리플을 최소화 하는 방법과 이로 인하여 발생하는 스위칭 손실을 최소화하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방식은 MOSFET의 선형영역을 사용하여 출력 전류를 제어함으로써, 전력변환기의 출력 전류에 리플이 발생하지 않는다. 이러한 방식은 스위칭 방식의 전력변환 회로에 비하여 출력전류리플이 상대적으로 매우 작기 때문에, 수동필터를 최소한으로 설계할 수 있는 장점을 갖는다. 제안된 방법을 전통적인 Buck 컨버터에 적용하고 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안된 회로와 알고리즘의 이론적 타당성을 검증하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.157-163
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• 2014

This paper proposes a two-stage step-down buck and a tapped-inductor boost cascaded converter for high efficiency photovoltaic micro-inverter applications. The proposed inverter is a new structure to inject a rectified sinusoidal current into a low-frequency switching inverter for single-phase grid with unity power factor. To build a rectified-waveform of the output current. the converter employs both of a high efficiency step-up and a step-down converter in cascade. In step-down mode, tapped inductor(TI) boost converter stops and the buck converter operates alone. In boost mode, the TI converter operates with the halt of buck operation. The converter provides a rectified current to low frequency inverter, then the inverter converts the current into a unity power-factor sinusoidal waveform. By applying a TI, the converter can decrease the turn-on ratios of the main switch in TI boost converter even with an extreme step-up operation. The performance validation of the proposed design is confirmed by an experimental results of a 120W hardware prototype.