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Fast SPICE-Compatible Simulation of Low-Power On-Chip PWM DC–DC Converters With Improved Ripple Accuracy
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics IEEE Trans. Power Electron. Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on. 35(8):8173-8185 Aug, 2020
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers
Nuclear Engineering
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Integrated circuit modeling
Pulse width modulation
Switches
Switching circuits
Computational modeling
Mathematical model
Topology
Current-mode control (CMC)
deep-submicro-meter CMOS
Fourier series
large-signal averaged model
low-power on-chip dc–dc converter
multiharmonic modeling
Language
ISSN
0885-8993
1941-0107
Abstract
The circuit averaging technique has long been used as the basis for modeling the behavioral effects of switched-mode pulsewidth-modulated (PWM) dc–dc power converter circuits due to its simplicity and efficiency in simulation. However, circuit-averaged models struggle to capture the effects of higher order harmonics on the output waveforms. Alternatively, multiharmonic models that capture high-frequency characteristics of output waveforms are typically very complex and computationally expensive. A general, efficient, and accurate multiharmonic modeling and simulation technique for low-power on-chip PWM dc–dc converters is presented in this article. The technique is based on the large-signal averaged model of the PWM switch cell and on the Fourier series expansion of the typical converter waveforms. Its applicability range includes current-mode-controlled dc–dc converters. The method is exemplified on a buck and on a boost converter and achieves a speedup of one order of magnitude with an accuracy loss below 3% over the transistor-level simulation. The method accounts for nonideal circuitry and supports any number of harmonics.