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Chopper (electronics)

Related publications (11)

A Capacitively-Coupled Chopper Instrumentation Amplifier for Implantable Bridge Sensor Systems

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli

This paper presents an energy and area efficient capacitively-coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) dedicated to implantable bridge sensor systems. Chopper stabilization is employed to decrease its offset and 1/f noise and the resulting ripple d ...

IEEE2022

Multiobjective Vector Modulation for Improved Control of NPC-Based Multi-Source Inverters in Hybrid Traction Systems

Andrea Cervone

The concept of a multi-source inverter (MSI) based on NPC topology was recently introduced for hybrid-electric powertrains to connect several dc sources to the traction load in a single conversion stage without magnetics. This work proposes a new modulatio ...

2022

Optimal Linear Controller for Minimizing DC Voltage Oscillations in MMC-Based Offshore Multiterminal HVDC Grids

Maryam Kamgarpour, Luca Furieri

The paper aims at minimizing DC voltage oscillations in offshore multiterminal high-voltage direct current (HVDC) grids based on modular multilevel converters (MMCs). The DC voltage stability is a crucial factor in multiterminal HVDC networks since it is a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

AC/DC Ratio Enhancement in Photoplethysmography Using a Pinned Photodiode

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

Photoplethysmography (PPG) enables non-invasive vitals monitoring. Nevertheless, it is intrinsically limited by the extremely small AC/DC ratio, also called perfusion-index (PI). This increases the dynamic-range requirements to reliably process the PPG wav ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

A Dual-Edge Pulsewidth Modulator for Fast Dynamic Response DC-DC Converters

Maher Kayal, Adil Koukab, Giacomo Ripamonti

Voltage regulator modules are dc-dc converters that power modern microprocessors. They must exhibit a fast dynamic response, in order to achieve satisfactory regulation performance in spite of the rapid load current variations. The pulsewidth modulator is ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

A Reliability and Efficiency Optimization System for Hard-Switching DC/DC Converters

Maher Kayal, Adil Koukab, Giacomo Ripamonti

The Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN will use power distribution schemes relying on integrated buck DC/DC converters. Due to the radiation-hardness requirements, the devices used for the development of such converters will have a voltage rating wh ...

IEEE2018

Test Setup for Characterisation of Biased Magnetic Hysteresis Loops in Power Electronic Applications

Drazen Dujic, Min Luo

Hysteresis effect of core materials contributes sig- nificantly to the power loss and nonlinearity of the transformers and filter inductors in power electronic applications. For design or modeling of the magnetic components, information of the magnetic mat ...

IEEE2018

Arbitrary order generalized state space average modeling of switching converters

Drazen Dujic, Uzair Javaid

Generalized State Space Average Modeling (GSSAM), of switching converters, offers an opportunity to improve fidelity of a model by inclusion of different harmonic components. Yet, the inclusion of each frequency component contributes to an increase in the ...

IEEE2015

Multivariable Control of Single-Inductor Dual-Output Buck Converters

Alfred Rufer, Alireza Karimi, Behrooz Bahrani

Cross regulation is the main technical challenge of a Single-Inductor Multiple-Output (SIMO) dc-dc converter. This paper proposes a multivariable digital controller to suppress the cross regulation of a Single-Inductor Dual-Output (SIDO) buck converter in ...

Ieee2014

Multivariable Control of Single-Inductor Dual-Output Buck Converters

Alfred Rufer, Alireza Karimi, Behrooz Bahrani

Cross regulation is the main technical drawback of a Single-Inductor Multiple-Output (SIMO) dc-dc converter. This paper proposes a multivariable digital controller to suppress the cross regulation of a Single-Inductor Dual-Output (SIDO) buck converter in C ...

Ieee2013

Optimization of DC-DC Converters for Improved Electromagnetic Compatibility With High Energy Physics Front-End Electronics

Maher Kayal

The upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN sets new challenges for the powering of the detectors. One of the powering schemes under study is based on DC-DC buck converters mounted on the front-end modules. The hard environmental con ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011