A 200-MHz Integrated Buck Converter With Resonant Gate Drivers for an RF Power Amplifier

被引：49

作者：

Bathily, Malal ^{[1
]}

Allard, Bruno ^{[1
]}

Hasbani, Frederic ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Lyon, Ampere, INSA Lyon, CNRS UMR, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France

[2] STMicroelectronics, F-38920 Crolles, France

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS | 2012年 / 27卷 / 02期

关键词：

Buck converter; dc-dc converter; energy recycling; resonant gate driver; switched-mode power supply (SMPS); INDUCTORS;

D O I：

10.1109/TPEL.2011.2119380

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

High switching frequency dc-dc converters are present in many applications where wide regulation bandwidth and high efficiency are needed. A resonant gate driver is presented for improvement of efficiency at light-to-medium load conditions. Gate power losses that are a main contributor to total losses are reduced thanks to energy recovery. A testchip designed in 0.25-mu m BiCMOS shows as much as a 30% decrease in power losses compared to a conventional driver at 200-MHz switching frequency. The proposed resonant gate driver is fully integrated with its inductor unlike earlier works. The limitation in the reduction of gate losses is detailed and confirmed experimentally.

引用

页码：610 / 613

页数：4

共 8 条

[1] Bergveld Henk Jan, 2009, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition. ECCE 2009, P3698, DOI 10.1109/ECCE.2009.5316334
[2] A current source gate driver achieving switching loss savings and gate energy recovery at 1-MHz
Eberle, Wilson
Zhang, Zhiliang
Liu, Yan-Fei
Sen, Paresh C.
[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, 2008, 23 (02) : 678 - 691
[3] A 233-MHz 80%-87% elfficient four-phase DC-DC converter utilizing air-core inductors on package
Hazucha, P
Schrom, G
Hahn, J
Bloechel, BA
Hack, P
Dermer, GE
Narendra, S
Gardner, D
Karnik, T
De, V
Borkar, S
[J]. IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, 2005, 40 (04) : 838 - 845
[4] Mulligan M. D., P IEEE INT SOL STAT, P528
[5] Stacked-chip implementation of on-chip buck converter for distributed power supply system in SiPs
Onizuka, Kohei
Inagaki, Kenichi
Kawaguchi, Hiroshi
Takamiya, Makoto
Sakurai, Takayasu
[J]. IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, 2007, 42 (11) : 2404 - 2410
[6] Fully Monolithic Cellular Buck Converter Design for 3-D Power Delivery
Sun, Jian
Giuliano, David
Devarajan, Siddharth
Lu, Jian-Qiang
Chow, T. Paul
Gutmann, Ronald J.
[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS, 2009, 17 (03) : 447 - 451
[7] A high-efficiency DC-DC converter using 2 nH integrated inductors
Wibben, Josh
Harjani, Ramesh
[J]. IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, 2008, 43 (04) : 844 - 854
[8] [No title captured]

← 1 →