• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.271-278
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• 2011

This paper presents a LLC resonant controller IC for secondary side control without external active devices to achieve low profile and low cost LED back light units. A gate driving transformer is adopted to isolate the primary side and the secondary side instead of an opto-coupler. A new integrated dimming circuitry is proposed to improve the dynamic current control characteristic and the current density of a LED for the brightness modulation of a large screen LCD. A dual-slope clock generator is proposed to overcome the frequency error due to the under shoot in conventional approaches. This chip is fabricated using 0.35 ${\mu}m$ BCD technology and the die size is $2{\times}2\;mm^2$. The frequency range of the clock generator is from 50 kHz to 500 kHz and the range of the dead time is from 50 ns to 2.2 ${\mu}s$. The efficiency of the LED driving circuit is 97 % and the current consumption is 40 mA for a 100 kHz operation frequency from a 15 V supply voltage.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.365-366
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• 2017

LLC resonant DC-DC converter is widely used in many kinds of applications such as battery energy storage systems, wireless power transfer and high voltage power supply. It is because of characteristics like high efficiency, power density, isolation, wide power level and stability enhancement at high switching frequency. Small signal modeling helps to design controller of the converter by approximating the behavior of nonlinear system with linear state equations. This paper presents comparison between small signal modeling analysis and experimental results of LLC resonant converter.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.40-47
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• 2014

An average current mode control scheme that consistently offers good dynamic performance for LLC series resonant DC-to-DC converters irrespective of the changes in the operational conditions is presented in this paper. The proposed control scheme employs current feedback from the resonant tank circuit through an integrator-type compensation amplifier to improve the dynamic performance and enhance the noise immunity and reliability of the feedback controller. Design guidelines are provided for both current feedback and voltage feedback compensation. The performance of the new control scheme is demonstrated through an experimental 150 W converter operating with 340 V to 390 V input voltage to provide a 24 V output voltage.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.453-460
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• 2008

This paper proposes a new multi-output LLC resonant converter by using single control IC, which has the tight-regulated dual output voltage without additional power devices and controller. The proposed converter has master and slave outputs, of which regulations are achieved by the PWM(pulse width modulation) and PFM(pulse frequency modulation), respectively. Different from the conventional dual-output LLC resonant converter, the proposed converter has no additional post-regulators like a boost converter. Therefore, it features a low cost, small size, and high efficiency. To confirm the validity and prove the superiority of proposed converter, simulated and experimental results on a 50" FHD PDP power set prototype are presented.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.267-274
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• 2013

This paper presents a design of LLC resonant converter IC for LED backlight unit based on PFM/PWM dual-mode feedback. Dual output LLC resonant architecture with a single inductor is proposed, where the master output is controlled by the PFM and slave output is controlled by the PWM. To regulate the master output PFM is used as feedback to control the frequency of the power switch. On the other hand, PWM feedback is used to control the pulse width of the power switch and to regulate the slave output. This chip is fabricated in 0.35um 2P3M BC(Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS) Process and the die area is $2.3mm{\times}2.2mm$. Current consumptions is 26mA from 5V supply.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.209-210
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• 2016

프로토타입 컨버터 구현 시 전압/전류 제어기의 안정성, 제어 알고리즘, 정상적인 게이트 전압 제어가 보장되지 않은 경우 이를 수정하기 위해 사용하는 기존의 Trial and Error 방식은 조정에 많은 시간 및 비용이 소모된다. 본 논문은 이러한 시간적 비용 저감을 위하여 Control Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation(CHILS)를 이용하여 제어기의 정상 동작 여부와 성능을 실시간으로 검증하는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 LLC 공진형 컨버터를 CHILS로 구현하여, 개발된 DSP 제어기의 성능을 검증하고자 한다. 제안된 실시간 모의시험에서는 LLC 공진형 컨버터를 Matlab/Simulink에서 모델링 하여, 실제 DSP 제어기의 신호를 컨버터 모델에서 입력받아 모의시험장치의 출력 결과를 관찰함으로써 제어기의 동작 특성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.74-76
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 LLC 하프 브릿지 공진형 컨버터의 디지털 제어기 설계 및 실제적인 구현에 대해 기술한다. 분석된 LLC 컨버터의 소신호 특성을 기반으로 discrete domain에서 디지털 제어기를 설계 하였다. 설계된 디지털 제어기는 SMPS용으로 특성화된 Microchips사의 마이크로컨트롤러(MCU)인 dsPIC33f를 이용하여 구현되었으며, 아날로그 제어기와의 성능 비교는 실험을 통하여 검증 한다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.188-194
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• 2020

This paper presents a high-efficiency Switch Mode Line Transformer (SMLT) composed of load-shared dual modules, which is based on the AC/AC LLC resonant converter. Given that the conventional adaptor is usually composed of two power stages, namely, the PFC and DC/DC converters, its system size can be increased according to the output power. However, given that the proposed SMLT can separate the PFC converter from the adaptor, the size reduction of the system can be achieved. Meanwhile, the SMLT with a single module has the limit of the size reduction because of a high resonant current. Thus, it can be configured with dual or multiple modules to reduce the resonant current. Then, their load sharing can be guaranteed by only the proposed transformer structure without an extra current controller. The validity of the proposed converter is proven through a 850-W prototype.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.242-243
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• 2017

기존 Digital Signal Processor (DSP)를 사용하여 높은 동작 주파수의 LLC 공진형 컨버터를 구동하는 경우 낮은 동작 주파수 분해능과 계산 속도에 의해 출력 전압 제어성능과 동특성에 한계가 생긴다. 이를 해결하기 위해 기존의 분해능 및 계산 속도 부족에 의한 영향을 분석하고 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)를 설계하여 높은 동작 주파수 분해능 및 동특성을 얻고자 제안한다. FPGA를 이용한 성능향상을 DSP (TI - TMS 38335)와 FPGA (Xilinx XC7A100T)를 사용하여 비교 분석하고자 한다.