• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.412-415
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• 2015

This paper presents a MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking) control CMOS interface circuit for vibration energy harvesting. The proposed circuit consists of an AC-DC converter, MPPT Controller, DC-DC boost converter and PMU(Power Management Unit). The AC-DC converter rectifies the AC signals from vibration devices(PZT). MPPT controller is employed to harvest the maximum power from the PZT and increase efficiency of overall system. The DC-DC boost converter generates a boosted and regulated output at a predefined level and provides energy to load using PMU. A full-wave rectifier using active diodes is used as the AC-DC converter for high efficiency, and a schottky diode type DC-DC boost converter is used for a simple control circuitry. The proposed circuit has been designed in a 0.35um CMOS process. The chip area is $950um{\times}920um$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.267-270
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• 2014

This paper presents a CMOS interface circuit for vibration energy harvesting. The proposed circuit consists of an AC-DC converter and a DC-DC boost converter. The AC-DC converter rectifies the AC signals from vibration devices(PZT), and the DC-DC boost converter generates a boosted and regulated output at a predefined level. A full-wave rectifier using active diodes is used as the AC-DC converter for high efficiency, and a schottky diode type DC-DC boost converter is used for a simple control circuitry. A MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking) control is also employed to harvest the maximum power from the PZT. The proposed circuit has been designed in a 0.35um CMOS process. The chip area is $530um{\times}325um$. Simulation results shows that the maximum efficiencies of the AC-DC converter and DC-DC boost converter are 97.7% and 89.2%, respectively. The maximum efficiency of the entire system is 87.2%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.1
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• pp.139-144
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• 2016

This paper describes functional circuits of DC-DC converter IC incorporated with variable frequency PFM technique. In case of output voltage of DC-DC converter is reached setting value or output current is low then PFM switching frequency is slow down. In this work a PFM signal generator, a PFM Frequency Control Circuit, an output voltage detector and an over current protection circuits are designed. This device has been designed at a $0.35[{\mu}m]$, double poly, double metal 12[V] CMOS process.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.2 s.332
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

An area-efficient DC-DC voltage up-converter in a poly-Si TFT technology for system-on-glass is described which provides low-ripple output. The voltage up-converter is composed of charge-pumping circuit, comparator with threshold voltage mismatch compensation, oscillator, buffer, and delay circuit for multi-phase clock generation. The low ripple output is obtained by multi-phase clocking without increasing neither clock frequency nor filtering capacitor The measurement results have shown that the ripple on the output voltage with 4-phase clocking is 123mV, while Dickson and conventional cross-coupled charge pump has 590mV and 215mV voltage ripple, respectively, for $Rout=100k\Omega$, Cout-100pF, and fclk=1MHz. The filtering capacitor required for 50mV ripple voltage is 1029pF and 575pF for Dickson and conventional cross-coupled structure, for Iout=100uA, and fclk=1MHz, while the proposed multi-phase clocking DC-DC converter with 4-phase and 6-phase clocking requires only 290pF and 157pF, respectively. The efficiency of conventional and the multi-phase clocking DC-DC converter with 4-phase clocking is $65.7\%\;and\;65.3\%$, respectively, while Dickson charge pump has $59\%$ efficiency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.10 s.340
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• pp.39-46
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• 2005

A DC-DC converter with digital controller is realized. the digital controller has several advantages such as robustness, fast design time, and high flexibility. however, since the DC-DC output voltage is analog, an analog-to-digital conversion scheme is always essential in all digital controllers. A simple and efficient delta-sigma modulator is used as a conversion scheme in out implementation. The measurement results show good voltage regulation

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.86-94
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 전류 제어 방식을 갖는 DC-DC 변환기에 사용되는 기울기 보상회로에 있어서 가변적으로 동작하는 기울기 보상회로를 제안하였다. 시비율이 50% 이상으로 동작하는 DC-DC 변환기의 시스템의 안정도를 유지하기 위해서는, 램프 기울기 보상회로가 반드시 필요하다. 고정적인 기울기의 보상은 동작 범위를 제한하게 된다. 제안된 가변 기울기 보상회로는 넓은 범위의 입력 전압과 출력 전압에 적합하도록 설계 되었으며, LED 드라이버 응용분야에 적용하기 위한 DC-DC 변환기에 사용되었다. 동작을 검증하기 위하여, 0.35-um BDC 공정으로 회로를 제작하여 측정하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.72-75
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• 2012

In this paper, high-efficiency DC-AC converter is implemented for the wireless power transmission. The DC-AC converter is implemented by combining the oscillator and power amplifier. Because the conversion efficiency of wireless power transmitter is strongly affected by the efficiency of power amplifier, the high-efficiency power amplifier is implemented by using the Class-E amplifier structure. Also, because the output power of oscillator connected to the input stage of power amplifier is low, high-gain two-stages power amplifier using the drive amplifier is implemented to realize the high-output power DC-AC converter. The dual band harmonic suppression filter is implemented to suppress 2nd, 3rd harmonics of 13.56 MHz. The output power and conversion efficiency of DC-AC converter are 40 dBm and 80.2 % at the operation frequency of 13.56 MHz.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.10
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• pp.231-238
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• 2013

This paper describes a DC-DC converter IC for Flat Panel Displays. In case of operate LCD devices various type of DC supply voltage is needed. This device can convert DC voltage from 6~14[V] single supply to -5[V], 15[V], 23[V], and 3.3[V] DC supplies. In order to meet current and voltage specification considered different type of DC-DC converter circuits. In this work a negative charge pump DC-DC converter(-5V), a positive charge pump DC-DC converter(15V), a switching Type Boost DC-DC converter(23V) and a buck DC-DC converter(3.3V). And a oscillator, a thermal shut down circuit, level shift circuits, a bandgap reference circuits are designed. This device has been designed in a 0.35[${\mu}m$] triple-well, double poly, double metal 30[V] CMOS process. The designed circuit is simulated and this one chip product could be applicable for flat panel displays.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.14-18
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• 2010

In this paper, we describe a CMOS DC-DC converter with a variable output voltage(5-7V @100mA) for a portable battery-operated system applications. The proposed DC-DC converter is used along with a Pulse-Frequency Modulation (PFM) method and consists of reference circuit, a feedback resistor, a controller, and an internal oscillator. The integrated DC-DC converter with two external passive components(L,C) has been designed and fabricated on a 0.5um 2-poly 3-metal CMOS process and could be applied to the Personal Digital Assistants(PDA), cellular Phone, Laptop Computer, etc.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.18-23
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• 2012

In this paper, a potable device application for DC-DC converter was designed for voltage protection circuit. Voltage protection circuit to offer the under voltage lock out and over voltage protection consists of a comparator and bais circuits were implemented using. XFAB 1um CMOS process, SPICE simulations was confirmed through the characteristics. Simulation results, under voltage lock out input voltage is 4.8 V higher when the turn-on and, 4.2 V less when turn-off. When the input voltage is low voltage is applied can be used to prevent malfunction of the circuit. Over voltage protection is 3.8 V reference voltage when the output voltage caused by blocking circuit prevents device destruction can be used to improve the stability and reliability. The virtual control circuits of the DC-DC converter connected. According to the results of the abnormal voltage, voltage protection circuit behavior was confirmed. The proposed voltage protection circuit of the DC-DC converter cell is useful are considered.