A Unified Analysis of PWM Converters in Discontinuous Modes.pdf

416 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS. VOL 6. NO 3, JULY 1991 A Unified Analysis of PWM Converters in Discontinuous Modes Dragan MaksimoviC, Member, IEEE, and Slobodan Cuk, Member, IEEE Abstract-Three discontinuous operating modes of PWM sion properties and low-frequency dynamics of PWM converters are considered in this paper-the discontinuous in- converters in discontinuous modes. ductor current mode (DICM), the discontinuous capacitor volt- In Section 11, it is shown that in addition to CCM, age mode (DCVM) and a previously unidentified mode named discontinuous quasi-resonant mode (DQRM). DC and small- DCIM and DCVM, yet another discontinuous mode is signal ac analyses are applicable to all basic PWM converter possible. The discontinuous quasi-resonant mode topologies. Any particular topology is taken into account via its (DQRM) can be viewed as a combination of the two well-known dc conversion ratio in the continuous conduction known discontinuous modes. A general dc model is de- mode. The small-signal model is of the same order as the state- space averaged model for the continuous mode, and it offers scribed in Section I11 and applied to each of the three dis- improved predictions of the low-frequency dynamics of PWM continuous modes. For a given PWM converter, unified converters in the discontinuous modes. It is show