A boost converter for thermoelectric energy harvesting in 130 nm CMOS achieves energy harvesting from a 10 mV input, which allows wearable body sensors to continue operation with low thermal gradients. The design uses a peak inductor current control scheme and duty cycled, offset compensated comparators to maintain high efficiency across a broad range of input and output voltages. The measured ...

This paper presents a boost converter along with a flyback converter. The Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) technique is used to achieve soft switching. A bidirectional boost converter is connected with an output module as a Parallel Input Serial Output configuration. The flyback converter with Voltage Doubler Rectifier (VDR) acts as an output module. This connection makes a bidirectional boost conv...

This paper analyzes the performance of two different maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms for photovoltaic (PV) system: artificial neural network (ANN) and adaptive neuro fuzzy inference (ANFIS) as used by an interleaved soft switching boost converter (ISSBC) system with different conditions, such as partially shaded, condition, changing solar insolation and PV cell temperature. Howev...

• Forward and Inverse 32-, 64-, 128-, 256-, 512-, 1,024-, and 2,048-Point Complex FFT • Decimation–In-Time (DIT) Radix-2 Implementation Optimized for Actel FPGAs • Selection of Unconditional or Conditional Block Floating-Point Scaling • Embedded RAM-Block-Based Twiddle Factor Generator • 8to 16-Bit Configurable Input/Output Data and Twiddle Coefficients Precision • Naturally Ordered Input and O...

This paper describes a new usage of the dc/dc converter developed by D. I. Sheppard and B. E. Taylor in 1983 for achieving high power factor and output regulation. This converter may be viewed as a cascade of a modified boost stage and a buck stage, with the two stages sharing the same active switch. Two possible operation regimes are described. In the first regime, the converter’s input part, ...

A method for programming current in dc/dc converters operating in discontinuous conduction mode is described in this paper. The control variable is the product of the square of the duty cyle and the switching period (D T ), which is directly proportional to input and output currents of a discontinuous-mode converter. A method of controllingD T is applied to converters that utilize one switch (o...

Boost half bridge DC-DC converters in the combination of an input-series and output-series (ISOS) connected configuration with a stable control strategy has been investigated in this paper. A stable control strategy comprises of two loops that are current loop and voltage loop. The reference to the current loop has been chosen from the input side of the DC-DC converter. The reference to the vol...

A Double input DC to DC converter for low voltage energy sources applications is proposed in this paper. The proposed converter is buck-boost converter which can step up or step down the input voltage according to output voltage required at load end. The converter is able to boost up voltage of energy sources such as solar photovoltaic and wind energy system of relatively low voltage. The conve...

The emergence of PV inverter and Electric Vehicles (EVs) has created an increased demand for high power densities and high efficiency in power converters. Silicon carbide (SiC) is the candidate of choice to meet this demand, and it has, therefore, been the object of a growing interest over the past decade. The Boost converter is an essential part in most PV inverters and EVs. This paper present...