Development of an Automotive HID Electronic Ballast Based Microprocessor

Author

Wang, D.H. ; Cheng, K.W.E. ; Divakar, B.P. ; Dong, P. ; Chan, W.W. ; Xue, X.D. ; Ding, K. ; Che, Y.B. ; Xu, C.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Kowloon

fYear

2006

fDate

12-14 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

229

Lastpage

233

Abstract

An automotive high intensity discharge (HID) electronic ballast based microprocessor is presented along with hardware design, software design and experimental results. The paper discusses some of the vital practical issues on hardware circuit design. According to the start-up characteristics of HID lamp, a timing control is presented. A new control method is proposed on the power mode control by controlling HID lamp current. Experimental results demonstrate the design of hardware and software is successful.

Keywords

automotive electronics; hardware-software codesign; lamp accessories; lamps; lighting control; microprocessor chips; HID lamp; automotive lighting; electronic ballast; flyback converter; hardware circuit design; hardware design; high intensity discharge; igniter; inverter; microprocessor; software design; start-up characteristics; timing control; Automotive engineering; DC-DC power converters; Electronic ballasts; Hardware; High intensity discharge lamps; Microprocessors; Power electronics; Pulse width modulation; Pulse width modulation inverters; Voltage; HID lamp; ballast; flyback converter; igniter; inverter; microprocessor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Systems and Applications, 2006. ICPESA '06. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

962-367-544-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESA.2006.343104

Filename

4147817