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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"constant on-time"”.
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Modeling and design of digital current-mode constant on-time control
… presents the fundamental issues of the digital controlled DC/DC converter. A lot of challenges exist when you introduce the digital control technique into the control of the DC/DC converter, especially with regards to the voltage regulator module. One issue is the limit cycle oscillation problem …
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A Constant ON-Time 3-Level Buck Converter for Low Power Applications
… is light load for power supplies. Typical buck converter applications have low efficiency under the light load condition, primarily from their power stage and control being optimized for heavy load. The battery life of a smart camera can be extended through improvement of the light load …
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A Novel Inverse Charge Constant On-Time Control for High Performance Voltage Regulators
One of the fundamental characteristics of the microprocessor application is its property of dynamic load change. Although idle most of the time, it wakes up in nanoseconds to support sudden workload demands, which are becoming increasingly severe in today's multi-core processors with large core …
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Modeling and Stability Analysis for Multiphase Constant On-Time Control With Phase Overlapping
… steady-state current. For output voltage regulation, multiphase current-mode and V² constant on-time (COT) control techniques are widely used because these control methods can help increase control bandwidth, minimize output impedance, and achieve fast transient response with less output …
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Small-signal Analysis and Design of Constant-on-time V2 Control for Ceramic Caps
Recently, constant-on-time V2 control is more and more popular in industry products due to features of high light load efficiency, simple implementation and fast transient response. In many applications such as cell phone, camera, and other portable devices, low-ESR capacitors such as ceramic caps …
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Digital current mode control for multiple input converters
… possibility of applying digital current mode control on multiple-input (MI) converters is studied. As for MI topologies having a central energy transfer inductor, the predictive constant on-time current-mode control can greatly reduce both the design and digital realization efforts needed. By …
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48V/1V Voltage Regulator for High-Performance Microprocessors
The data center serves as the hardware foundation for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing, constituting a global market that has surpassed $200 billion and is experiencing rapid growth. It is estimated that data centers contribute to 1.7-2.2% of the world's electricity generation. …
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Low-power Power Management Circuit Design for Small Scale Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric Cantilevers
… Harvesting energy from mechanical vibrations using piezoelectric cantilevers provides possible means to recharge the batteries or eliminate them. Raw power harvested from ambient sources should be conditioned and regulated to a desired voltage level before its application to electronic …
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Equivalent Circuit Model of High Frequency PWM and Resonant Converters
… for the telecom, computer and network applications. Constant on-time current mode control and V2 control are widely used as point-of-load (POL) converters and voltage regulators (VR) in DPS systems. Series resonant converters (SRC) are widely used in aerospace systems and LLC resonant converters …
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A Two-Phase Buck Converter with Optimum Phase Selection for Low Power Applications
Power consumption of smart cameras varies significantly between sleep mode and active mode, and a smart camera operates in sleep mode for 80 — 90% of time for typical use. To prolong the battery life of smart cameras, it is essential to increase the power converter efficiency for light load, while …
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Energy Harvesting Circuit for Indoor Light based on the FOCV Method with an Adaptive Fraction Approach
… circuit system is designed for indoor solar environment especially for factories where the light energy is abundant and stable. The designed circuits are intended to power wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) or other computing unit such as microcontrollers or DSPs to provide a power solution for Internet …
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Control and Modeling of High-Frequency Voltage Regulator Modules for Microprocessor Application
… module (VRM) challenges of high bandwidth control with fast transient response, high current output, simple implementation, and efficient 48V solution are tackled in this dissertation. With the push for control bandwidth to meet design specifications for microprocessor VRM with larger and …
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Modeling and Design of Digitially Controlled Voltage Regulator Modules
It can be expected that digital controllers will be increasingly used in low voltage, high-current and high frequency voltage regulator modules (VRMs) where conventional analog controllers are currently preferred because of the cost and performace reasons. However, there are still remaining two …
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A Two-Mode Synchronous Buck Converter for Low-Power Devices with the Sleep Mode
The power consumption of smart camera in car black box varies significantly between light load and heavy load. The high efficiency voltage regulator is necessary in prolong the life of smart camera battery. Since the smart camera only recording the video when car is driving, the most time of the …
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Equivalent Circuit Model for Current Mode Controls and Its Extensions
Current-mode control architectures have been an indispensable technique in many applications, such as Voltage Regulator, Point-of-load converters, power factor correction, battery charger and LED driver. Since the inductor current ramp is used in the modulator in current-mode control without any …
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A Two-mode Buck Converter toward High Efficiency for the Entire Load Range for Low Power Applications
… essential to increase the efficiency of power converters, especially at light load. This thesis research investigated a power converter to supply power for the microprocessor of a smart camera. The input voltage of the converter is 5 V, and the output voltage is 1.2 V with the load ranging from …
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Unified Three-terminal Switch Model for Current Mode Controls
Current-mode control architectures with different implementation approaches have been an indispensable technique in many applications, such as voltage regulator, power factor correction, battery charger and LED driver. Since the inductor current ramp, one of state variables influenced by the input …
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Advanced Control Schemes for High-Bandwidth Multiphase Voltage Regulators
Advances in transistor-integration technology and multi-core technology of the latest microprocessors have driven transient requirements to become more and more stringent. Rather than relying on the bulky output capacitors as energy-storage devices, increasing the control bandwidth (BW) of the …
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Current-Mode Control: Modeling and its Digital Application
Due to unique characteristics, current-mode control architectures with different implementation approaches have been widely used in power converter design to achieve current sharing, AVP control, and light-load efficiency improvement. Therefore, an accurate model for current-mode control is …