Chapter 10
Switching DC Power Supplies
• One of the most important applications of power
electronics
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Linear Power Supplies
• Very poor efficiency and large weight and size
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Switching DC Power Supply: Block Diagram
• High efficiency and small weight and size
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Switching DC Power Supply: Multiple
Outputs
• In most applications, several dc voltages are
required, possibly electrically isolated from each other
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Transformer Analysis
• Needed to discuss high-frequency isolated supplies
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PWM to Regulate Output
• Basic principle is the same as discussed in Chapter 8
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Flyback Converter
• Derived from buck-boost; very power at small power
(> 50 W ) power levels
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Flyback Converter
• Switch on and off states (assuming incomplete core
demagnetization)
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Flyback Converter
• Switching waveforms (assuming incomplete core
demagnetization)
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Other Flyback Converter Topologies
• Not commonly used
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Forward Converter
• Derived from Buck; idealized to assume that the
transformer is ideal (not possible in practice)
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Forward Converter:
in Practice
• Switching waveforms (assuming
incomplete core demagnetization)
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Forward Converter: Other Possible Topologies
• Two-switch Forward converter is very commonly used
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Push-Pull Inverter
• Leakage inductances become a problem
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Half-Bridge Converter
• Derived from Buck
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Full-Bridge Converter
• Used at higher power levels (> 0.5 kW )
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Current-Source Converter
• More rugged (no shoot-through) but both switches
must not be open simultaneously
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Ferrite Core Material
• Several materials to choose from based on applications
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Core Utilization in Various Converter
Topologies
• At high switching frequencies, core losses limit
excursion of flux density
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Control to Regulate Voltage Output
• Linearized representation of the feedback control
system
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Forward Converter: An Example
• The switch and the diode are assumed to be ideal
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Forward Converter:Transfer Function Plots
• Example
considered earlier
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Flyback Converter:Transfer Function Plots
• An example
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Linearizing the PWM Block
• The transfer function is essentially a constant with
zero phase shift
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Gain of the PWM IC
• It is slope of the characteristic
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Typical Gain and Phase Plots of the OpenLoop Transfer Function
• Definitions of the crossover frequency, phase and
gain margins
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A General Amplifier for Error Compensation
• Can be implemented using a single op-amp
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Type-2 Error Amplifier
• Shows phase boost at the crossover frequency
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Voltage Feed-Forward
• Makes converter immune from input voltage
variations
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Voltage versus Current Mode Control
• Regulating the output voltage is the objective in both
modes of control
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Various Types of Current Mode Control
• Constant frequency, peakcurrent mode control is used
most frequently
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Peak Current Mode Control
• Slope compensation is needed
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A Typical PWM Control IC
• Many safety control
functions are built in
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Current Limiting
• Two options are shown
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Implementing
Electrical
Isolation in the
Feedback Loop
• Two ways are shown
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Implementing Electrical Isolation in the
Feedback Loop
• A dedicated IC for this application is available
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Input Filter
• Needed to comply with the EMI and harmonic limits
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ESR of the Output Capacitor
• ESR often dictates the peak-peak voltage ripple
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