Modeling and Simulation of Dual-Mode DC/DC Buck Converter

Author

Bi, Zhuo ; Xia, Wenbin

Author_Institution

Micro-Electron. R&D Center, Shanghai Univ, Shanghai, China

Volume

3

fYear

2010

Firstpage

371

Lastpage

375

Abstract

A dual-mode DC/DC buck converter is presented in this paper. The converter operation includes the soft start, sawtooth oscillator, zero-current detector and PWM/PFM detector. According to the judgment of zero-current detector and PWM/PFM detector, the converter can switch automatically between pulse width modulation (PWM) mode and pulse frequency modulation (PFM) mode. Because of this, the proposed converter model has the ability to adapt to various loading conditions and therefore achieve high efficiency over a wide load-current range which is critical for extended battery life. The converter is modeled and simulated by Simulink. Experimental results show the maximum conversion efficiency is 93% at 140 mA load current. Within all load current range from 10 mA to 500 mA, the converter efficiency is over 85%.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; PWM power convertors; oscillators; pulse frequency modulation; zero current switching; PWM/PFM detector; Simulink; current 10 mA to 500 mA; dual-mode DC-DC buck converter; extended battery life; pulse frequency modulation mode; pulse width modulation mode; sawtooth oscillator; soft start; zero-current detector; Buck converters; Circuits; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Detectors; Inductors; MOSFETs; Pulse width modulation; Pulse width modulation converters; Voltage; PFM control; PWM control; buck converter; dual-mode converter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Modeling and Simulation, 2010. ICCMS '10. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya, Hainan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5642-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5643-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCMS.2010.490

Filename

5421246