Abstract
This paper presents a wide range buck-boost direct current to direct current (DC–DC) converter for wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. To implement the wide range DC–DC converter, a Hysteresis triple-mode selector is proposed and designed to effectively adjust the DC–DC converter to operate in one of the three modes: buck, boost or buck-boost, according to the input voltage level. Hysteresis control technique eliminates the unstable state at the mode transition. An output soft start-up circuit is proposed to reduce the inrush current in the switch transistor. A min-max duty generator is introduced to improve the accuracy of DC–DC converter. When the output voltage is too low or too high in comparison to the desired value. The min-max duty generator can control the DC component of the error signal to eliminate the unwanted dead state of the pulse width modulation signal. In addition, only one external inductor is shared between two power stages, thus minimizing the system cost by reducing the external components. The proposed buck-boost DC–DC converter is implemented using 180 nm Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The output voltage is regulated to 5 V when the input voltage ranges 3–8 V, and output load current ranges 100–500 mA. The die area is 1.55 mm × 1.14 mm (1.767 mm2). The measured peak efficiency of the buck-boost DC–DC converter is 94.8%.
Highlights
With the explosion of mobility devices, the momentum towards IoT and wearable devices is an obvious and predicted trend
The proposed digital-control-based buck-boost converter operates with light load condition at discontinuous conduction mode. This structure needs to be improved more in terms of operational efficiency and capability at higher load current condition. Another approach based on digital control to implement non-inverting buck-boost direct current to direct current (DC–DC) converter is presented in [17]
The input of the DC–DC converter contains an extremely large fluctuations of dead stage of pulse width modulation (PWM), we introduced the Min-Max Duty Generator voltage and current due to the energy harvesting application
Summary
Using Hysteresis Triple-Mode Control Technique with Peak Efficiency of 94.8% for RF Energy. Truong Thi Kim Nga 1 , Seong-Mun Park 1 , Young-Jun Park 1 , Sang-Hyuk Park 1 , SangYun Kim 1 , Truong Van Cong Thuong 1 , Minjae Lee 2 , Keum Cheol Hwang 1 ID , Youngoo Yang 1 and Kang-Yoon Lee 1, *
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