DocumentCode
3568683
Title
Design of DC-DC switched-capacitor voltage multiplier driven by DC energy transducer
Author
Tanzawa, Toru
Author_Institution
Micron Japan, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
fYear
2014
Firstpage
327
Lastpage
330
Abstract
This paper proposes a model to help designers maximize output power in systems that contain a DC energy transducer and a DC-DC multiplier charge pump by identifying initial circuit and device parameter estimates for SPICE simulations. This model also enables designers to use simple equations to estimate the sensitivity of the DC transducer´s characteristic parameters, like short circuit current and output impedance, on the charge pump´s output power.
Keywords
SPICE; capacitor switching; parameter estimation; rectifiers; short-circuit currents; transducers; voltage multipliers; DC energy transducer; DC-DC multiplier charge pump; DC-DC switched-capacitor voltage multiplier design; SPICE simulations; device parameter estimate identification; output power maximization; sensitivity estimate; sensitivity estimationoutput impedance; sensitivity estimationshort circuit current; Charge pumps; Impedance; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; Power generation; SPICE; Transducers; Charge pump; DC-DC; Energy harvesting; Modeling; Multiplier; Rectifier; Transducer;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 2014 21st IEEE International Conference on
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICECS.2014.7049988
Filename
7049988
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