Comparison of continuous and discontinuous Current Source Drivers for high frequency applications

Author

Zhang, Zhiliang ; Fu, Jizhen ; Liu, Yan-Fei ; Sen, P.C.

Author_Institution

Aero-Power Sci-tech Center, Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

12-16 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

2434

Lastpage

2440

Abstract

Comprehensive comparison of continuous and discontinuous Current Source Drivers (CSDs) are presented in terms of switching loss reduction, gate energy recovery, range of duty cycle and fast dynamic response. The advantages and disadvantages of the continuous and discontinuous CSDs are summarized. Overall, the discontinuous CSDs achieve better performance over the continuous CSDs. A 12 V input, 1.3V/30A output and 1 MHz buck converter was built to verify the difference between these two types of the CSDs.

Keywords

constant current sources; driver circuits; power convertors; CSD; buck converters; current 30 A; discontinuous current source drivers; frequency 1 MHz; gate energy recovery; switching loss reduction; voltage 1.3 V; voltage 12 V; Driver circuits; Drives; Inductors; Logic gates; MOSFET circuits; Switching frequency; Switching loss; Buck converter; Current Source Driver (CSD); Resonant Gate Driver (RGD); Voltage Regulator (VR); Voltage Regulator Module (VRM); power MOSFET;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5286-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5287-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617923

Filename

5617923