Title
Design and Verification of Speed-Independent Multiphase Buck Controller
Abstract
Power regulators and converters impose high requirements on the latency and resilience of their control circuitry. In this paper we design a speed-independent multiphase buck controller based on a novel lazy token ring architecture, that allows overlapping the charging cycles of multiple phases as well as simultaneous activation of all phases to handle the sudden power demand. The advantages over traditional synchronous designs include reliable handling of asynchronous inputs from sensors, low-latency reaction to the changes in power demand (under-voltage, over-current, zero-crossing and high-load conditions), and more balanced utilisation of charging phases. The essential correctness properties of the developed controller have been formally verified, and the whole buck has been validated in the industrial settings using exhaustive simulation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ASYNC.2015.14
2015 21st IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
speed-independent controller,multiphase buck,formal verification,verification-driven design
Asynchronous communication,Control theory,Synchronization,Control theory,Latency (engineering),Correctness,Token ring,Control engineering,Converters,Engineering,MOSFET
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1522-8681
8
0.66
References 
Authors
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Danil Sokolov122727.50
victor khomenko2355.21
Andrey Mokhov313626.57
Alex Yakovlev451664.23
David Lloyd5153.26