{"title":"Research on torque feedback equivalent structures in the multi-layer and multi-axis synchronisation control model","authors":"Jie Xu, Sizhou Sun, Huacai Lu","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12105","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12105","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes a novel torque feedback equivalent structure oriented to the diversity of torque feedback in multi-layer and multi-axis complex systems. First, in view of the existing synchronisation control problem, this paper presents master reference synchronous model and master–slave synchronous model in a multi-layer and multi-axis synchronous control system. Second, the change of the direct feedback to front layer axis is lower than that of the direct feedback to master axis, and the adjustment difference of the axis output is low. Moreover, the stability and superiority of the proposed controller are theoretically analysed. By two methods, it can be seen that the control system can converge at a faster speed and run stably with good dynamic performance and synchronisation performance. The results verify the effectiveness of the adaptive control model in which the two equivalent torque feedback structures converge to zero.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":"16 4","pages":"301-310"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113949073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design considerations of a novel Triple Oxide Trench Deep Gate LDMOS to improve self-heating effect and breakdown voltage","authors":"Amir Gavoshani, Ali A. Orouji","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12102","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12102","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, design considerations of a new device structure are presented to improve the self-heating effect (SHE) and the breakdown voltage of the Deep Gate LDMOS (Lateral Double Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor) transistor and compared with a conventional LDMOS (C-LDMOS). In this case, triple oxide trenches with an <i>N</i><sup>+</sup> trench are embedded in the drift region. These trenches create additional peaks in the electric field profile, so the electric field is modified. The authors demonstrate that by optimising the trenches, the breakdown voltage of the device increases. Also, a partially buried oxide is used in the proposed structure to create a conduction path that significantly reduces the SHE. Moreover, the results indicate that the specific on-resistance, lattice temperature, and breakdown voltage of the proposed device are improved considerably compared to the C-LDMOS.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":"16 3","pages":"272-279"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132234390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and analysis of energy-efficient compressors based on low-power XOR gates in carbon nanotube technology","authors":"Elmira Tavakkoli, Mahdi Aminian","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12100","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12100","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Compressors are the fundamental components in multipliers to accumulate and reduce partial product stages in a parallel manner. This study presents several architectures for low-power 4-2 and 5-2 compressors, which are based on the proposed circuits of the full-swing and non-full-swing XOR gates in carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNTFET) technology. The CNTFET technology has been chosen because of its unique electrical and mechanical features. The proposed circuits are investigated in terms of process, voltage and temperature variations, delay, power dissipation, energy, power-delay product (PDP) and transistor count. All the proposed and referenced designs are simulated using an HSPICE tool in a 32 nm CNTFET Stanford technology model. The results show that the proposed circuits have less PDP and power consumption than the previous work. The proposed compressors have the lowest PDP, achieving 5.8%–41.9% improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":"16 3","pages":"240-256"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133759333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A transformer-less DC–DC converter with high voltage conversion ratio adopting inverting voltage lift cell","authors":"Ebrahim Babaei, Hamed Mashinchi Maheri, Mehran Sabahi","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12101","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12101","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this work, a high voltage gain dc-dc converter is proposed based on a switched inductor cell. The proposed converter utilises an inverting switched capacitor cell at the output side to achieve high voltage gain. Extendibility of the proposed structure without applying the fundamental change to the topology is the merit of the proposed structure as well as the low voltage stress on the switches. The operation of the switches with the same duty cycle is the other advantage of the proposed converter. The steady-state analysis of the proposed converter is discussed in detail. The proposed converter is investigated under real conditions in order to compare it with its operation under ideal conditions. The proposed structure is compared with other topologies presented in the literature, previously. Finally, the experimental results are given to prove the validity of the theoretical analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":"16 3","pages":"257-271"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12101","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114168498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of adding small applications after verification experiment in a power electronics course","authors":"Guopeng Zhao","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12099","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12099","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In order to deepen the understanding of power electronics circuits, in this study, a teaching method of adding simple small applications of circuits on the basis of basic verification experiments is proposed. Teachers teach basic principles and applications of circuits, and students conduct basic verification experiments of circuits in the laboratory. Simple application experiments are added after the verification experiments. The full-bridge DC-DC converter circuit is taken as an example to carry out practical teaching. After completing the function of the full-bridge DC-DC converter circuit, a load of DC motor is used. The full-bridge DC-DC converter circuit is used to control the speed of the DC motor so as to realise the simple application of the full-bridge DC-DC converter circuit with a motor speed control function. By comparing the experimental realisation rate, the correct rate of thinking questions and the in-depth understanding of the application theory of two experimental classes, namely the class with simple applications and the class without simple applications, it is shown that the students with simple application experiments improved the correct rate of thinking questions and deepened their understanding of the applications. Compared with the situation in which most students in the class that did not conduct the application experiment did not know the application principle in detail, most students in the class that conducted the application experiment had a deep understanding of the applications. Through the questionnaire survey of students, it is observed that the method proposed in this study could deepen the understanding of circuits and the students had a simple and preliminary understanding of the applications of power electronics technology. It improved students' interest in the course and their practicing ability. The proposed teaching method had a good effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":"16 3","pages":"218-227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122565574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal field reconstruction based on weighted dictionary learning","authors":"Tianyi Zhang, Wenchang Li, Jinyu Xiao, Jian Liu","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12098","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Dynamic thermal management (DTM) is applied to address the thermal problem of high performance very-large-scale integrated chips. The false alarm rate (FAR) can be used to evaluate the impact of full-chip thermal field reconstruction accuracy on DTM. A low FAR relies on the accurate reconstruction of the full thermal field, especially near the temperature triggering threshold of DTM. However, little attention is currently being paid to such temperature ranges. To reduce FAR, a new full-chip thermal field reconstruction strategy is proposed. A low-dimensional linear model is used to accurately represent the thermal fields. The dictionary learning technology is exploited to train the model and the minimum weighted mean square error evaluation method is incorporated to improve the reconstruction accuracy near the temperature triggering threshold. A temperature sensor placement algorithm using the heuristic algorithm to solve the NP-hard problem is also proposed. The experimental results show that the proposed strategy can reconstruct the full thermal field with a more precise accuracy near the triggering threshold and achieve the lowest FAR compared to the state of the art.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":"16 3","pages":"228-239"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130224761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shahbaz Hussain, Mehedi Hasan, Gazal Agrawal, Mohd Hasan
{"title":"A high-performance full swing 1-bit hybrid full adder cell","authors":"Shahbaz Hussain, Mehedi Hasan, Gazal Agrawal, Mohd Hasan","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12097","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12097","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study proposes an 18-transistor full adder (FA) cell based on the full swing hybrid logic style. It has a first stage comprising the XOR-XNOR module followed by pass transistors and inverters to generate the sum and carry outputs. The performance evaluation of the proposed FA cell has been carried out using an HSPICE simulator at the 16 nm process node by comparing it with eight existing FAs over the supply voltage ranging from 0.4 to 1.0 V. The proposed adder achieved 34.77% improvement in propagation delay, 48.8% improvement in average power and 66.58% improvement in Power Delay Product compared to the conventional CMOS Mirror adder while operating at 0.8 V. Moreover, its performance metrics are also better than those of other latest existing adder cells. Hence, the proposed FA is suitable for modern high performance digital processors.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":"16 3","pages":"210-217"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114821673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Li Dong, Yan Song, Bing Zhang, Zhechong Lan, Youze Xin, Liheng Liu, Ken Li, Xiaofei Wang, Li Geng
{"title":"Theoretical total harmonic distortion evaluation based on digital to analogue converter mismatch to improve the linearity of successive approximation register analogue to digital converter","authors":"Li Dong, Yan Song, Bing Zhang, Zhechong Lan, Youze Xin, Liheng Liu, Ken Li, Xiaofei Wang, Li Geng","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12095","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mismatch in the binary-weighted capacitive digital-to-analog converter (DAC) greatly affects the linearity of the successive-approximation-register (SAR) ADC by deteriorating the total harmonic distortion (THD). In this study, a theoretical relationship between the THD and the mismatch error of DAC array in SAR ADC is derived through discrete Fourier transform (DFT) analysis of the time-based integral error (TIE) of the ADC's output codes, which has no specific requirement on the type of the input signals. Guided by the theoretical THD expression, the trade-off among the linearity, design complexity, power consumption and chip area can be balanced easily. The presented formula is verified by a design example of 12-bit SAR ADC with dynamic-element-matching (DEM) technique, where the 3-bit LSBs from the SAR ADC are used to generate the randomised DEM state according to the previous THD evaluation. The linearity is enhanced by 9 dB approximately with very low hardware complexity and extremely small extra power consumption of 2 <i>μ</i>W.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":"16 2","pages":"189-199"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122497642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Single event transient mitigation techniques for a cross-coupled LC oscillator, including a single-event transient hardened CMOS LC-VCO circuit","authors":"Arumugam Karthigeyan, Sankararajan Radha, Esakkimuthu Manikandan","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12094","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12094","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Single-event transients (SETs) due to heavy-ion (HI) strikes adversely affect the electronic circuits in the sub-100 nm regime in the radiation environment. This study proposes techniques to mitigate SETs in CMOS voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) without affecting the circuit specifications. A circuit asymmetry technique is used for faster recovery of the oscillator in the event of a single event transient (SET) caused by an ion hit. Also, a new SET tolerant inductor capacitor-voltage controlled oscillator (LC-VCO) topology is proposed for a radiation environment that shows reduced phase displacement, amplitude displacement, and recovery time. A comparison has been made with various LC-VCOs that have an inherent rad-hard capability which proves a significant improvement in SET sensitivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":"16 2","pages":"178-188"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126776098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect analysis of the teaching method of mutual result correction between students in an experiment of power electronics course","authors":"Guopeng Zhao","doi":"10.1049/cds2.12096","DOIUrl":"10.1049/cds2.12096","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In order to deepen students' understanding of experimental content and improve the accuracy of experimental results based on improving students' learning initiative, in this study, a teaching method is proposed that lets students check and correct experimental results among themselves after doing experiments. Teachers guide students in experiments but do not check and correct experimental results. At the end of the experiments, students check each other and correct the results of the experiments from the perspective of the teachers. When the experimental results are correct, the experiment ends. If problems are found, the correct experimental results can be obtained by modifying or redoing the experiment. In this study, the sinusoidal pulse width modulation inverter circuit experiment in power electronics course is taken as an example for practical teaching research. There are two classes in this study: one that applies the method and the other that does not. According to the statistics and analysis of the correct rate of experimental results and the answers to thinking questions, students who checked or corrected each other deepened their understanding of the experimental content when both groups did the experiments correctly. When the experimental results of the two groups are different, students can learn from each other, discuss with each other, redo the experiment, and correct wrong results so as to improve the accuracy of the experimental results and the correct answer rate of thinking questions. Through the questionnaire survey, the method proposed in this study enables students to correct the experimental results from the perspective of teachers, thus improving students' awareness of mutual learning and active learning. It can improve the experimental effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":50386,"journal":{"name":"Iet Circuits Devices & Systems","volume":"16 3","pages":"201-209"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/cds2.12096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114452700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}