Title
Cascoded power stage with automatic dead time generation
Abstract
The paper presents a cascoded power stage with automatic dead time generation. The circuit is using the inter-transistor node voltages of the cascode configuration as feedback control signals to delay turning ON the power transistors. The circuit is designed as the output stage of a fully-integrated buck converter. The steady-state operation is described. The waveforms simulated on 45-nm CMOS process show that in steady-state operation the short-circuit path and body diode conductions are avoided while effective zero-voltage switching (ZVS) are provided both for ground and power supply line; the calculated dead times are in a good agreement with simulation results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/MWSCAS.2015.7282019
2015 IEEE 58th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
DC-DC converters,Buck converter,Cascoded Stage,Dead time auto-generation,ZVS
Dead time,Logic gate,Cascode,Computer science,Power semiconductor device,Voltage,Waveform,Electronic engineering,Control engineering,Transistor,Buck converter
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1548-3746
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Igor Filanovsky1218.68
Jani K. Jarvenhaara283.83
Nikolay T. Tchamov3177.82