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A Reliability and Efficiency Optimization System for Hard-Switching DC/DC Converters

Ripamonti, Giacomo
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Michelis, Stefano
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Faccio, Federico
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January 1, 2018
2018 16Th Ieee International New Circuits And Systems Conference (Newcas)
16th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS)

The Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN will use power distribution schemes relying on integrated buck DC/DC converters. Due to the radiation-hardness requirements, the devices used for the development of such converters will have a voltage rating which is close to the converters' input voltage. The voltage spikes generated during the hard-switching operation can affect the reliability of such low-voltage MOSFETs. A fixed and sufficiently small gate driver current for the high-side switch could be used to guarantee the reliable operation even in the worst-case conditions in terms of input voltage, output current, temperature and process variations. Nevertheless, this would result in a suboptimal efficiency in all the other working conditions. This work presents an integrated system than monitors in real-time the, voltage stress, and adjusts the gate driver current to achieve maximum efficiency in all conditions, while ensuring compliance with the reliability specifications. A buck converter including the, voltage peak detector and an adjustable gate driver current has been designed in a 130 nm technology, demonstrating the functionality of the voltage stress monitoring system.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/NEWCAS.2018.8585694
Web of Science ID

WOS:000458806300037

Author(s)
Ripamonti, Giacomo
Michelis, Stefano
Faccio, Federico
Saggini, Stefano
Koukab, Adil  
Kayal, Maher  
Date Issued

2018-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2018 16Th Ieee International New Circuits And Systems Conference (Newcas)
ISBN of the book

978-1-5386-4859-9

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference

Start page

157

End page

161

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Engineering

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dc-dc power conversion

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integrated circuit reliability

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hot-carrier degradation

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model

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
16th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS)

Montreal, CANADA

Jun 24-27, 2018

Available on Infoscience
June 18, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/157428
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