We have constructed a versatile current to voltage (I-V ) converter operating at liquid helium temperature, using a commercially available all-CMOS OPamp. It is valuable for cryogenic measurements of electrical current of nano-pico amperes, for example, in scanning probe microscopy. The I-V converter is thermally linked to liquid helium bath and self-heated up to 10.7 K. We have confirmed its c...

An on-chip calibration technique has been proposed for a 7-bit Comparator Based Asynchronous Binary Search (CABS) A/D Converter. The proposed design is veri-fied using an 8-bit, 3.3V, 10 MS/s Asynchronous SAR A/D Converter by integrating the calibration scheme into the A/D Converter. The 8-bit Asynchronous SAR A/D Converter consists of a track-and-hold followed by a two-step conversion process....

The size of the LCL filter can be decreased significantly using higher switching frequencies enabled by next generation semiconductors. This paper studies the effects of the switching frequency of a grid converter on the LCL filter design. The goal in the design is to minimize the stored energy of the magnetic components. The core material of the converter-side inductor is selected based on the...

This paper demonstrates the low voltage operation of a doubly balanced Gilbert mixer fabricated in a 0.8m CMOS process and operating as both a down-converter and an upconverter. As a down-converter with an RF input of 1.9 GHz, the mixer has a single sideband noise figure as low as 7.8 dB and achieved down-conversion gain for supply voltages as low as 1.8 V. As an up-converter, the mixer demonst...

1 This work is supported by NSF (contract number NSF 99 608 03) Abstract-A single-stage power factor correction converter with soft-switching is proposed in this paper. Besides the ZVT turn-on performance of the main switch, the converter has ZCS for the auxiliary switch with an active snubber. High frequency operation of the proposed converter makes the ac-dc power supply possible to be minimi...

In this paper, a comparative analysis on the bifurcative and chaotic behaviour of a current controlled buckboost converter with soft switching and hard switching is performed. The electromagnetic interference generated during hard switching and soft switching of the converter is analyzed. Simulation and measured results show that the total energy is more evenly spread over the frequency band du...

A compact dc/ac inverter for automotive is presented and experimented. The proposed inverter consists of fall bridge inverter and a new ZVCS quasi-resonant push pull dc/dc converter. The new dc/dc converter converts input 12 V (from battery) to high voltage (about) 200V at very high conversion efficiency without regulation. The high voltage will be converted to ac at the desired voltage and fre...

This paper presents a simulation of sigma-delta A/D converter using mixed signal environment and compares the accuracy achieved by mixed signal modeling environment over normal simulators, the converter designed here is of third order, we also analyzed the behavior of the converter the complete simulation is performed using Simplorer VHDL– AMS simulator in which codes are written in VHDL–AMS la...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a power converter for an autonomous wind induction generator (IG) feeding an isolated load through the PWM-based novel soft-switching interleaved boost converter. The output voltage and frequency of the wind IG is inherently variable due to random fluctuation of wind-speed variation. The interleaved boost converter composed of two shunted ele...

We propose a fast and precise transient response and frequency characteristics simulation method for switching converters. This method uses a behavioral simulation tool without using a SPICE-like analog simulator. The nonlinear operation of the circuit is considered, and the nonlinear function is realized by defining the nonlinear formula based on the circuit operation and by applying feedback....