In this paper, we propose a level shifter circuit capable of handling a wide input voltage range. The circuit is based on a conventional two-stage comparator, and has a distinctive feature in that it operates a current amplification scheme for ultra low-power operation. The proposed circuit can convert low-voltage input digital signals into high-voltage output digital signals. The circuit achie...

The poor quality of voltage and current of a conventional inverter fed induction machine is due to the presence of harmonics and hence there is significant level of energy losses. The nine level inverter is used to reduce the harmonics. The inverters with a large number of steps can generate high quality voltage waveforms. The concept of multilevel inverters, introduced about 20 years ago entai...

This paper presents a new method to find the optimum switching angles in voltage source multilevel converters in order to minimize specific higher order harmonics and decrease the total harmonic distortion (THD) of their output voltage waveform. The output voltage waveform of inverter can either be in the form of staircase or PWM. In order to increase the degrees of freedom and elimination of m...

This report describes a level shifter with crowbar current suppression is proposed to achieve simultaneously high switching speed and low power dissipation for high-voltage transducer driving. Unlike prior implementations, the new circuit does not require additional high-voltage supplies nor static power consumption. The prototype switches up to 32 V with only 1.8 V input consuming less than 0....

Standard Low Voltage CMOS Technologies José Rocha Marcelino Santos J. M. Dores Costa Floriberto Lima Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa / IPL, Av. Conselheiro Emídio Navarro 1, 1949-014 Lisboa, Portugal Phone: +351-218317000, Fax: +351-218317236, e-mail: [email protected] IST, ENIDH / INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal, [email protected]; [email protected]; Chipidea Microe...

In a photovoltaic system, sun light energy is converted to electricity. The generatedelectricity has a low DC voltage. In order to increase voltage generated by photovoltaic cells (PV),an additive DC-DC converter is required to raise the low voltage to a good level which provides theconditions for connection to DC-DC converters. Low wastes, low costs, and high efficiency are someother specifica...

This paper presents the impact of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) generator on dynamic voltage stability of a power distribution system by considering solar intermittency, PV penetration level, and contingencies such as line outage and load increase. The IEEE 13 node test feeder is used as a test system, and a solar PV of 0.48 kV/0.5 MVA is integrated into the test system. Test results show th...

Piezoelectric actuator is treated as RC load when it is modeled electrically. For some piezoelectric actuator applications, arbitrary voltage is required to actuate. Especially for unidirectional arbitrary voltage driving like as sine wave, some special inverter with circuit that can charge and discharge the capacitive energy can be used. In this case, the difference between power supply level ...