{"title":"A 400 V Buck Converter integrated with Gate-Drivers and low-voltage Controller in a 25–600 V mixed-mode SiC CMOS technology","authors":"Utsav Gupta, Hua Zhang, Tianshi Liu, Sundar Isukapati, Emran Ashik, Adam Morgan, Bongmook Lee, Woongje Sung, Anant Agarwal, Ayman Fayed","doi":"10.1007/s10470-024-02270-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10470-024-02270-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper offers the first demonstration of the design and layout of a fully integrated power converter in a monolithic Silicon Carbide (SiC) technology. A 400 V Buck Converter integrated with Gate-Drivers and Low-Voltage Control circuitry in a 25–600 V Mixed-Mode SiC CMOS technology has been presented in this paper. A new SiC technology has been developed for this design which has a feature size of 1 μm. This technology allows integration of High-Voltage Power FETs and Low-Voltage CMOS circuits on the same die with a common substrate. Both high-side and low-side Power FETs are N-type hence a bootstrap circuit is used, and the gate drivers use an isolated capacitive level shifter to translate the signals from the 25 V domain to the 400 V domain which is the input voltage of the Buck Converter. The load current is 1 A and the nominal output voltage is 100 V thereby meaning that the output power is 100 W. The switching frequency is up to 1 MHz, and the duty cycle can range from 10% to 90% signifying a wide range of operation of the converter.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7827,"journal":{"name":"Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing","volume":"119 3","pages":"463 - 474"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140671730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and investigation of a novel variable reactance-based capacitive RF-MEMS switch with multifrequency operation for mmWave applications","authors":"Raj Kumari, Mahesh Angira","doi":"10.1007/s10470-024-02271-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10470-024-02271-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents the design and investigation of a variable reactance-based RF-MEMS capacitive switch operating on multiple frequency bands in millimetre wave ranges used for B5G applications. The proposed switch has a built-in band switching capability to cover multiple frequency bands in FR-II mmWave band which can provide an inspirational and optimistic platform to tackle 5G and beyond challenges. The novel design utilizes lateral deflections to make and break the device’s connection and results in a very low pull-in voltage of < 3 V. The switch operates in different modes maximum up to 9 and switches between multiple frequencies by varying the reactance of the electromechanical structure. These modes are tuned to cover all the bands from n257 to n261, primarily used to provide 5G/B5G services in various countries. The RF performance, voltage requirement, and switching speed of the proposed device are as per the guidelines of the 5G/B5G communication system. The insertion losses are < 0.5 dB, and isolation is > 20 dB over the tuned frequency range (FR-II mmWave) with optimum isolation peaks at 12.1 GHz, 12.9 GHz, 21.2 GHz, 22.2 GHz, 23.5 GHz, 24.8 GHz, 26.1 GHz, and 39.5 GHz. The proposed device features a significant improvement in electromechanical and electromagnetic performance over a wide bandwidth with different structural configurations and thus can be used as an efficient IoT (Internet of Things) frequency reconfigurable device.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7827,"journal":{"name":"Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing","volume":"119 3","pages":"417 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140613080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Suganya, P. Mangaiyarkarasi, G. Thirugnanam, T. M. Sathish Kumar
{"title":"A hybrid approach with MPPT controller for weed cutting based on solar powered lawnmower with minimal intervention of human involvement adopting IoT technology","authors":"T. Suganya, P. Mangaiyarkarasi, G. Thirugnanam, T. M. Sathish Kumar","doi":"10.1007/s10470-024-02263-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10470-024-02263-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A novel hybrid method is proposed for designing a highly autonomous solar-powered lawnmower. The proposed hybrid method is a combination of the pelican optimization algorithm (POA) and the random forest algorithm (RFA); commonly, it is named the POARFA technique. The key objective of the proposed technique is to minimize errors while ensuring smooth and reliable operation. The solar lawnmower includes a rechargeable battery, Internet of Things (IoT), solar panel, and DC motor for control, monitoring, and user information. The IoT is utilized to control, monitor, and provide information to the user. The key components of the proposed lawnmower include a rechargeable battery, solar panel, IoT, and DC motor. This electrical energy is fed into the charging circuit. The controller of fractional order proportional integral derivative (FOPID) is used to regulate the motor that is utilized to track the path and improve the response of the system. The RFA approach is used to tune the parameters of the FOPID controller. The proposed solar lawnmower is extremely versatile, very durable, comfortable, and powerful, evading obstacles on the path. The proposed technique is executed in the MATLAB software and is compared with existing techniques. The peak overshoot of the POARFA approach is 0.712%, significantly lower than other approaches. In conclusion, the proposed POARFA approach showcases promising results for solar-powered lawnmowers, offering a more efficient, reliable, and sustainable solution compared to existing methods.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7827,"journal":{"name":"Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing","volume":"119 2","pages":"249 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140196292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Palagiri Veera Reddy, V. V. Satyanarayana Tallapragada
{"title":"FPGA-enabled lossless ECG signal compression system using an integer adaptive compressor","authors":"Palagiri Veera Reddy, V. V. Satyanarayana Tallapragada","doi":"10.1007/s10470-024-02269-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10470-024-02269-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The most common non-invasive diagnostic model is the Electrocardiogram (ECG), which records the heart’s electrical activity over time and is used to diagnose various heart conditions. Due to the requirements of a typical eHealth system, it is necessary to compress ECG signals for long-term data recording and remote transmission. Moreover, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have been considered the most long-lasting disorders in recent years. The transmission of information from the patient to the distant hospital is necessary because rapid analysis and treatment are essential for the condition to be cured. Also, the data must be in the form of lossless and high-predictability data. So, the goal of this study was to create a two-stage lossless Integer Adaptive Predictor (IAP) compressor that could be implemented on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) without introducing any data loss during the compression process. Before compression, the ECG signals are denoised using a Fast Normalized Least Mean Square (FNLMS) algorithm-based adaptive filter, which removes the undesirable noise presented in the signal. Here, the adaptive filter is designed based on the hybrid systolic folding structure and compressor-based multiplier architecture to minimize the power, delay and area consumption of the filter while performing the signal-denoising process. Xilinx and MATLAB are used to run simulations using the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia and PTB diagnostic databases. Several performance parameters are used to assess the proposed design’s efficacy, and the results are compared to those of similar current designs. Consequently, the proposed compressor achieves a 45.23% compression ratio (CR) on MIT-BIH and a 10.87% average CR on the PTB diagnostic database, which demonstrates that the compression proficiency of the proposed design is high.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7827,"journal":{"name":"Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing","volume":"119 2","pages":"331 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140196285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kamaraju Vechalapu, Chintapalli V. V. S. Bhaskara Reddy
{"title":"Model and design of an efficient controller for microgrid connected HRES system with integrated DC–DC converters: ATLA-GBDT approach","authors":"Kamaraju Vechalapu, Chintapalli V. V. S. Bhaskara Reddy","doi":"10.1007/s10470-023-02218-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10470-023-02218-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A controller is modelled and designed to optimize the power transfer in microgrid-connected hybrid renewable energy systems using an integrated DC/DC converter. To maximize the converter's output power and minimize the switching losses of the converter, a model is developed by including a simplified high conversion ratio converter, a maximal power point tracker, and an optimal controller with an effective control strategy. The proposed control system is a combination of the Artificial Transgender Longicorn Algorithm (ATLA) and the Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) algorithm, named the ATLA-GBDT method. In the suggested technique, the ATLA is used as an assessment method to build up accurate control signals for the system and to improve the control signals database for offline use while considering the power exchange between the source and load. In addition, for training a GBDT system online, the data set received from the sensor is used to develop a control system for faster response. In addition, the goal function is defined by the system data, which is subject to equality and inequality constraints. Various constraints considered in the problem formulation are the output of renewable energy sources, power requirements, and the state of charge of storage components. The proposed control system is simulated using the MATLAB/Simulink platform, and the implementation is compared with the existing techniques. Various performance metrics like accuracy, specificity, recall and precision, RMSE, MAPE, and MBE of the proposed method and existing methods in the literature are presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7827,"journal":{"name":"Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing","volume":"119 2","pages":"233 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140128563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An improved blind Gaussian source separation approach based on generalized Jaccard similarity","authors":"Xudan Fu, Jimin Ye, Jianwei E","doi":"10.1007/s10470-024-02264-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10470-024-02264-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Blind source separation (BSS) consists of recovering the independent source signals from their linear mixtures with unknown mixing channel. The existing BSS approaches rely on the fundamental assumption: the number of Gaussian source signals is no more than one, this limited the use of BSS seriously. To overcome this problem and the weakness of cosine index in measuring the dynamic similarity of signals, this study proposes the fuzzy statistical behavior of local extremum based on generalized Jaccard similarity as the measure of signal’s similarity to implement the separation of source signals. In particular, the imperialist competition algorithm is introduced to minimize the cost function which jointly considers the stationarity factor describing the dynamical similarity of each source signal separately and the independency factor describing the dynamical similarity between source signals. Simulation experiments on synthetic nonlinear chaotic Gaussian data and ECG signals verify the effectiveness of the improved BSS approach and the relatively small cross-talking error and root mean square error indicate that the approach improves the accuracy of signal separation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7827,"journal":{"name":"Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing","volume":"119 2","pages":"363 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140035952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. J. Venkatesh, R. Priya, P. Hemachandu, Chinthalacheruvu Venkata Krishna Reddy
{"title":"An optimization approach control of EV solar charging system with step-up DC–DC converter","authors":"R. J. Venkatesh, R. Priya, P. Hemachandu, Chinthalacheruvu Venkata Krishna Reddy","doi":"10.1007/s10470-024-02253-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10470-024-02253-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An optimization technique for the control of a photovoltaic (PV)-fed electric vehicle (EV) solar charging station with a high gain of step-up dc-to-dc converter. An optimization approach is the Namib beetle optimization (NBOA) approach. This approach is used to control the EV solar charging station. Also, the principles of a switched capacitor and a coupled inductor are integrated into the interleaved structure of the NBOA converter to produce low-current, high-efficiency, and high-voltage gain. However, the major contribution is to minimize the total harmonic distortion (THD) and to control the EV solar Charging Station. The bi-directional DC-to-DC converter in an energy-storage-system has the advantages of high efficiency and fast response speed. By then, the NBOA technique is done in MATLAB software, and the performance is evaluated with the existing techniques. The NBOA system has low THD and high efficiency, which is compared with the existing ant-lion optimizer, wild horse optimizer, and salp-swarm algorithm, methods. From the analysis, the NBOA method provides a better outcome than the existing one.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7827,"journal":{"name":"Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing","volume":"119 2","pages":"215 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140008639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and analysis of a low phase noise, wide tunable CMOS based low power VCO with active inductor","authors":"Isha Kadyan, Manoj Kumar","doi":"10.1007/s10470-024-02266-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10470-024-02266-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A novel active-inductor based VCO design, employing a 180 nm TSMC technology, is postulated in this work. The coarse frequency is obtained in this VCO system by regulating the MOS-based active inductor. This design provides a high oscillation frequency of 3.7 GHz and a tuning range of 99.25% when the voltage ranges from 1 to 2 V. The total power consumed by this active-inductor based VCO varies from 0.7 mW to 33.32 mW within the specified range. The achieved phase noise is − 107 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency. The figure of merit measured is − 162.15 dBc/Hz. The results demonstrate that the proposed VCO functions more effectively than the existing VCOs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7827,"journal":{"name":"Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing","volume":"119 2","pages":"319 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10470-024-02266-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140008777","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":"Correction: A floating memristor emulator for analog and digital applications with experimental results","authors":"B. Suresha, Chandra Shankar, S. B. Rudraswamy","doi":"10.1007/s10470-024-02268-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10470-024-02268-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7827,"journal":{"name":"Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing","volume":"119 2","pages":"389 - 389"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140427586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel high-gain narrowband antenna based on ENZ SIW structure and shorting pin","authors":"Rajesh Kumar Dash, Sadhana Kumari, Balamati Choudhury","doi":"10.1007/s10470-024-02267-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10470-024-02267-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper provides an idea for designing a high-gain narrow-band substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) antenna. The high gain is achieved due to the epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) technique, and narrow-band performance is achieved due to impedance matching provided by a pair of symmetric shorting pins. In this paper, SIW is used near its cut-off frequency to realize the ENZ characteristics. Further, two symmetric open stubs are incorporated to reject the out out-of-band frequency signal. To attain narrow-band performance, pair of symmetric shorting pins are employed in place of the conventional way, i.e., tapered line transition to couple the energy from microstrip to SIW. To validate the proposed concept, a high-gain narrow-band SIW antenna has been designed for a frequency band on a 0.79 mm thick RT- DUROID 5880 substrate. Within the 7.77–8.07 GHz band, the proposed antenna radiates with gain and radiation efficiency of 6.51 dBi and 96%, respectively. The measured and simulated results are found to be consistent. The overall size of the proposed antenna is 28 X 22 mm<sup>2</sup>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7827,"journal":{"name":"Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing","volume":"119 3","pages":"455 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139980436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}