Abstract
As the core of electronic system, the switched-mode power supply (SMPS) will lead to serious accidents and catastrophes if it suddenly fails. According to the related research, the monitoring of ripple can acquire the health degree of SMPS indirectly. To realize low-cost, high-precision, and automatic ripple measurement, this paper proposes a new ripple voltage (peak-to-peak value) measuring scheme, utilizing a DAC and two high-speed comparators. Within this scheme, the DC component of SMPS output is blocked by a high-pass filter (HPF). Then, the filtered signal and the reference voltage from a DAC together compose the input of a high-speed comparator. Finally, output pulses of the comparator are captured by a microcontroller unit (MCU), which readjusts the output of the DAC by calculation, and this process is repeated until the DAC output is exactly equal to the peak (or valley) value of ripple. Moreover, in order to accelerate the measurement process, a peak estimation method is specially designed to calculate the output ripple peak (or valley) value of buck topology through merely two measurements. Then the binary search method is utilized to obtain a more exact value on the basis of estimative results. Additionally, an analysis of the measurement error of this ripple measurement system is executed, which shows that the theoretical error is less than 0.5% where the ripple value is larger than 500 mV. Furthermore, appropriate components are selected, and a prototype is manufactured to verify the validity of the proposed theory.
Highlights
Switched-mode power supply (SMPS) is widely applied due to the advantages of low power consumption and high efficiency [1]
The health degree of the switched-mode power supply (SMPS) can be obtained by the real-time monitoring of aluminum electrolytic capacitors (AECs) parameters, which contributes to preventive maintenance and the indication of future failure occurrences
The experimental results indicate that the measurement error of this designed system is less than 0.5% with 20 ms consumption where the ripple value is larger than 500 mV, which completely satisfies the requirements of engineering applications and scientific research
Summary
Switched-mode power supply (SMPS) is widely applied due to the advantages of low power consumption and high efficiency [1]. Smith proposed an improved peak measurement method by adding a high-speed comparator with open-drain output. It has the property of ameliorative accuracy at high frequency without diode, but it fails to acquire the valley voltage [29]. The DAC output could gradually approximate to the peak or valley values of the input signal It is only designed for power frequency AC measurement; in this case, the convergence is too slow. The experimental results indicate that the measurement error of this designed system is less than 0.5% with 20 ms consumption where the ripple value is larger than 500 mV, which completely satisfies the requirements of engineering applications and scientific research
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