This paper focuses on the production of electricity using a thermoelectric generator placed on the human body connected to a dc-dc converter. The small difference in temperature between the hot heat source (e.g. the human body, Tb = 37 ◦C) and the cold heat source (e.g. ambient air, Ta = 22 ◦C), associated with a poor quality thermal coupling (mainly with the cold source), leads to a very low t...

Low voltage high-efficiency DC-DC conversion circuits are integral components of battery operated portable systems. This paper presents the design of a pulse width modulated (PWM) controller for a milliwatt level DC-DC converter. Low power control circuitry is constructed by utilizing a delay line based PWM generator and low-resolution feedback. A IDC-DC converter has been fabricated which deli...

In this paper, the concept of the modulated-ramp PWM generator is presented. The specific nonlinear behavior of this generator enables an exact linear control-to-output static conversion characteristic of DC-DC switching converters, such as the boost (step-up), buck/boost, Ćuk or Sepic, operating in Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM). The resulting linearization leads to a significant improvement...

The high efficiency power management IC (PMIC) with switching device is presented in this paper. PMIC is controlled with PFM control method in order to have high power efficiency at high current level. Dynamic Threshold voltage CMOS (DT-CMOS) with low on-resistance is designed to decrease conduction loss. The threshold voltage of DT-CMOS drops as the gate voltage increase, resulting in a much h...

In this paper, analyzing the operation of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) based stand alone wind power system with Sensorless Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) and a system for storing energy during wind speed and load variations. In standalone system, power, balance and power quality require the energy storage system. In conventional systems, MPPT depends on wind turbine para...

This paper presents a small-scale prototype of a wind-photovoltaic hybrid system, having batteries as energy storage components. All devices are connected to a common dc-bus using appropriate power converters. The photovoltaic modules are connected through a dc-dc buck converter using Perturb and Observe Maximum Power Point Tracking control. The permanent magnet synchronous generator (wind gene...

A simple step and search control strategy for extracting maximum output power from grid connected Variable Speed Wind Energy Conversion System (VSWECS) is implemented in this work. This system consists of a variable speed wind turbine coupled to a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) through a gear box, a DC-DC boost converter and a hysteresis current controlled Voltage Source Converte...

This paper presents a refined stochastic model of the delay-chain based true random number generator (DCTRNG) and its application. DC-TRNG is a true random number generator for FPGAs that utilizes time-to-digital conversion (TDC) to accurately determine the position of the ring-oscillator jittery signal edge. Our stochastic model employs precise time characterization of the carry-chains that ar...

This paper deals with the problem of interfacing a wind turbine generator with an electrical three phase grid in the presence of nonlinear loads. Wind systems are generally connected to the grid through an AC/DC inverter in the generator side, followed by a DC/AC converter in the grid side. In this work, the considered DC/AC converter is based on multilevel neutral point clamped topology, and w...