Abstract
With the fast growing information technologies, high efficiency AC-DC front-end power supplies are becoming more and more desired in all kinds of distributed power system applications due to the energy conservation consideration. For the power factor correction (PFC) stage, the conventional constant frequency average current mode control has very low efficiency at light load due to high switching frequency related loss. The constant on-time control for PFC features the automatic reduction of switching frequency at light load, resulting improved light load efficiency. However, lower heavy load efficiency of the constant on-time control is observed because of very high frequency at Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM). By carefully comparing the on-time and frequency profiles between constant on-time and constant frequency control, a novel adaptive on-time control is proposed to improve the light load efficiency without sacrificing the heavy load efficiency. The performance of the adaptive on-time control is verified by experiment.
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