Zhangyong Chen, Lei Ren, Yunfeng Wu, Xin Tong, Zhijie Luo
{"title":"Design and Implementation of Switched-Capacitor-Buck Converter With Improved Light Load Efficiency","authors":"Zhangyong Chen, Lei Ren, Yunfeng Wu, Xin Tong, Zhijie Luo","doi":"10.1002/cta.70289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cta.70289","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The intermediate bus power architecture applied in data centers usually adopts a two-stage <b>DC–</b>DC conversion scheme from 48 V bus voltage. In order to further improve the conversion efficiency of the two-stage circuit while reducing the size and cost of the circuit output capacitor, the overall system control with charge COT control scheme is utilized in this paper, not only can achieve higher efficiency under light load, while the output capacitor in the use of smaller, lower cost ceramic capacitors. Moreover, the existence of the subharmonic oscillation phenomenon is omitted. The experimental results show that the proposed control scheme can significantly improve the light-load efficiency of the two-stage circuit, and at the same time, the output ripple of the ceramic capacitor can be controlled to about 20 mV (0.4%) without subharmonic oscillation at an output load point voltage of 5 V.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13874,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications","volume":"54 8","pages":"4303-4314"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148662895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic Calibration of Frequency Response for AC Attenuators in Precision Voltage Measurements","authors":"Hongjun Hu, Haixia Song, Qiang Luo","doi":"10.1002/cta.70290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cta.70290","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Conventional RC divider–based attenuators in precision AC voltage measurement are highly susceptible to parasitic parameters. This issue causes fluctuating attenuation ratios at high frequencies and degrades signal transmission accuracy. To address this, a novel calibration method is proposed to stabilize frequency response through capacitive compensation and feedback adjustment. A calibration model is first established by mapping the time- and frequency-domain responses, explicitly accounting for real-life parasitic effects. Guided by this model, an automatic frequency compensation system and a corresponding timing diagram are designed. The method is validated through simulation and experiment using a 100:1 AC attenuator for covering 300 V RMS measurement. Results demonstrate markedly improved performance: The low-voltage (LV) attenuation achieves a response flatness of 0.43% in the 10 Hz to 100 kHz band and 0.59% in the 10 Hz to 1 MHz band, whereas the high-voltage (HV) attenuation shows 0.68% flatness in the 10 Hz to 100 kHz frequency band. Additionally, the design exhibits excellent linearity better than 41 ppm and minimal temperature drift.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13874,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications","volume":"54 8","pages":"4371-4383"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148662899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manoj A. Waghmare, Bhimrao S. Umre, Mohan V. Aware
{"title":"Realizing Trade-OFFs in Virtual Voltage Vector Based Model Predictive Control of 3 \u0000\u0000 ∅ to 6 \u0000\u0000 ∅ MC to Suppress the Common Mode Voltage","authors":"Manoj A. Waghmare, Bhimrao S. Umre, Mohan V. Aware","doi":"10.1002/cta.70266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cta.70266","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The impact of common mode voltage (CMV) on induction motor life is significant under non-sinusoidal terminal voltage. In the advent of matrix converters for multi-phase drives pose a challenge not only to reduce CMV but also to maintain the load current total harmonic distortion (THD) within the acceptable limits. Hence, the matrix converter (MC) performance is attributed to CMV reduction, load current THD minimization and supply side UPF maintenance which together is difficult to attend without any trade-off. This paper presents a three-phase to six-phase matrix converter (\u0000<span></span><math>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 <mo>∅</mo>\u0000 <mtext>to</mtext>\u0000 <mspace></mspace>\u0000 <mn>6</mn>\u0000 <mo>∅</mo></math> MC) with virtual vector-based predictive control. In the classical predictive control selective utilization of the available voltage vectors, could lead to CMV reduction at the cost of the increase in the load current THD. The proposed predictive control is derived with selective virtual voltage vector formation to reduce the CMV while maintaining the load current THD within the limits. The trade-off between CMV and THD is achieved by using a decisive weighting factor in the cost function. The performance of the \u0000<span></span><math>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 <mo>∅</mo>\u0000 <mtext>to</mtext>\u0000 <mspace></mspace>\u0000 <mn>6</mn>\u0000 <mo>∅</mo></math> MC, such as efficiency improvement with supply side unity power factor (UPF) is also achieved. This control algorithm is executed using a low-cost dsPIC processor and verified experimentally to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13874,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications","volume":"54 8","pages":"4223-4234"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148662678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}