Nonlinear Current Control for Power Electronic Converters.pdf

4910 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL. 28, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2013 Letters Nonlinear Current Control for Power Electronic Converters: IC Design Aspects and Implementation ´ Miodrag Nikolic, Reinhard Enne, Bernhard Goll, and Horst Zimmermann Abstract—This letter provides design guidelines and presents a mode (CCM) and discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) [3]. fully integrated implementation of the recently proposed nonlin- The method was proposed in [2] targeting only (single phase) ear average current control (NACC) algorithm for power factor PFC converters, but it also was generalized and applied to dc–dc correction and dc–dc converters. The control performance and dy- converters [4]. namics of the current-mode controlled power electronic converter strongly depends on the accuracy of the applied current sensing A comparison of the aforementioned nonlinear current con- method. Several current sensing methods have been proposed in trol method in terms of IC implementation requirements for the literature, including the senseFET method, which is suitable PFC applications to standard (linear) average current control [5] for on-chip current measurement. This letter presents a modifica- could be found in [2]. A performance comparison is presented tion of the senseFET on-chip current sensing technique dedicated for an ultrahigh sensing ratio and suited for the current sensing in [4] for CCM mode, and in [3] for DCM mode, where appli- processing, which gives current-type output what fits well with the cations