One of the key limitations of state-of-the-art fine linewidth CMOS technologies is the restricted power-supply voltage, limited by the low junction-breakdown voltage of the process and by the thin gate oxide, prone to voltage stress and breakdown. Also, in some applications, the available external power source may limit the supply voltage; for example, this source may be a 1.2 V battery, with a...

Various basic, efficient and cheap techniques are used for the purpose of life forecast and failure detection of aluminum electrolytic capacitors which are utilized as a part of many power electronic converters. The main idea of these techniques is to calculate the values of Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR) and Capacitance (C). Observing the ESR values, valuation of changes in voltage and cur...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to improve and adapt cascaded multilevel converters for electric vehicles (EVs) to have all the advantages of these converters and to eliminate its limitations in the use of EVs applications. Specifically, the purpose is to use only a single power source (battery pack, fuel cell, etc.) and generate a higher power-quality than regular multilevel converters. Des...

In this article, various modulation strategies and hysteresis-band control of a recently introduced dual-boost nine-level inverter (DB9LI) are implemented. DB9LI is switched capacitor based capable generating symmetrical nine output voltage levels by employing single DC source. The topology generates boosted bipolar at the side without applying end-side H-bridge (usually employed to generate ne...

In this paper we propose fuzzy control of DC-link capacitor voltage of three-phase four-wire DSTATCOM for power quality improvement in distribution network. It is designed to compensate reactive power and to eliminate harmonic currents. DSTATCOM regulates the voltage at the point of common coupling (PCC) by injecting reactive power to the PCC. During load changes there is considerable variation...

We discuss the stability of an adiabatic stepwise-charging circuit with advanced series capacitors, which is effective for the reduction of the applied voltage to each capacitor. SPICE simulation shows that this circuit is stable even if the initial voltages are lower than zero. For the analytical discussion, we derive a matrix that connects charge and voltage in the circuit and show that the m...

Abstract— This paper extends the traditional family of PWM DC-DC converters. By employing voltage capacitor-multipliers, converters provide high voltage gains. The capacitor multiplier of each converter is driven by the same transistor of the well-known basic topology. The main features of these new converters are: (i) high-voltage gain without extreme duty cycles and transformerless. Therefor...

A new control scheme is presented which provides simultaneous control of the output voltage and the energy storage capacitor voltage in the full-bridge Boost Integrated with Buck RectifiedEnergy storage/Dc-dc converter (full-bridge BIBRED). The new control scheme solves the problem of wide voltage excursions for the energy storage capacitor voltage under variable load conditions. A low frequenc...

An on-chip voltage supply regulator for subthreshold-operated CMOS logic LSIs is proposed. The regulator transforms lithium battery voltage 3 V to low supply voltage 0.4-0.5 V for subthreshold-operated CMOS logic LSIs. It monitors the gate delay in the LSI and produces an appropriate supply voltage such that the delay is equal to a value determined by a built-in capacitor-resistor reference. We...

A power management controller circuit with a switched-capacitor mode down-regulator and a battery charger block for semi-active radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags was proposed and fabricated. The major achievement of the proposed switched-capacitor mode downregulator and battery charger block is providing a low standby current internal voltage supply circuit and self-controlled thin fil...