Suppression of electromagnetic interference of DC-DC power converters by chaos generators

Power DC-DC converters are notorious sources of electromagnetic interference in electronic products; therefore, suppression of EMI is an important topic in the design of switch mode power converters. Conventional EMI suppression methods may employ LC filters and metal shielding, but this can significantly increase cost, size, and weight. In this paper we propose a chaos-based method to reduce peak EMI magnitude and spread the energy to a wide range of frequencies. This method is to add a chaos-modulation clock to a converter maintaining in regular period state, in order to create chaotic behaviors in the converter. Our results show that this method is effective in suppressing EMI in DC-DC converters without much impact on the performance of converters. System stability is also analyzed and discussed. Moreover, compared with conventional methods, this method can be easily implemented in CMOS technology.