Experimental study and SPICE simulation of CMOS digital circuits latch-up effects due to high power microwave interference are reported in this paper. As a traditional inherent destruction phenomenon, latch-up effect may jeopardize the correct function of the circuits, and could be triggered in various ways such as ESD pulse, cosmic ray, heavy ion particles etc. Through the directly injected ex...

Abstract – In this paper, a generalized power loss algorithm for multilevel neutral-point clamped (NPC) PWM inverters is presented, which is applicable to any level number of multilevel inverters. In the case of three-level inverters, the conduction loss depends on the MI (modulation index) and the PF (power factor), and the switching loss depends on a switching frequency, turn-on and turn-off ...

This paper presents the design and analysis of a parallel connected inverter configuration of. The configuration consists of parallel connected three-phase dc/ac inverter. Series resistors added to the inverter output to maintain same current in each inverter of the two parallel inverters, and to reduce the circulating current in the parallel inverters to the minimum. High frequency third harmo...

This paper deals with the multiband hysteresis control technique which tracks the desired reference current and provide desired voltage and current waveform with less distortion for grid connected systems. Cascaded H bridge multilevel inverter is used in high power and medium power applications. Multiband tracks the desired reference current and is used for evaluating the performance of multile...

A novel random pulse width modulator with varying switching frequency but constant sampling frequency is proposed for application in voltage source inverters for adjustable-speed ac drives. Harmonic Spread Factor is introduced for quality evaluation of voltage spectra of inverters with the random PWM. Realization of the modulator using the Texas Instruments' TMS320F240 DSP controller is describ...

The multiple parallel inverters have more than one resonant frequency influenced by many factors, which tends to result in stability and power quality problems. This paper develops the multiple input multiple output model of the grid-connected inverters system using the closed-loop transfer function. The influence factors of resonant characteristics are analyzed with the developed model. The an...

The Class DE inverter offers high-efficiency power conversion under high operating frequency (megahertz order) with low switching noises and low switch voltage stress. It has been applied to dc/dc converters as high-density power sources. Conventional converters with the Class DE inverter are controlled by varying the operating frequency, the switch duty ratio or the phase difference with two i...

In recent years, an ongoing increase of grid-connected distributed and renewable electricity generation technologies is clearly noticeable. From an environmental perspective, the increase of renewable technologies is highly desirable, as they do not emit greenhouse gasses and thus not contribute to climate change. Nevertheless, their increase poses increasing challenges on the reliable operatio...

The paper investigates the use of dissipativity-based control for voltage-sourced inverters (VSI) utilized as reactive power and unbalance compensators, e.g., Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM). The approach relies on a frequency domain modeling of system dynamics using positive sequence and negative sequence dynamic components. Following the passivity-based procedure, a family of control...