An Optoelectronic Pulse Frequency Modulation Circuit for Retinal Prosthesis

A pulse frequency modulation（PFM） circuit for retinal prosthesis,which generates electrical pulses with frequency proportional to the intensity of incident light, is presented. The fundamental characteristic of the circuit is described and analyzed. The circuit is realized in 0.6μm CMOS process,and the simulation results testify to the possibility of sub-retinal implantation.

Spectrum for Pulse Frequency Modulation

This paper gives a spectrum expression which is simple and has a clear physical conception for pulse frequency modulation signal, and has been confirmed by an experiment simultaneously.

Ignition dynamics of radio frequency discharge in atmospheric pressure cascade glow discharge

A cascade glow discharge in atmospheric helium was excited by a microsecond voltage pulse and a pulse-modulated radio frequency(RF) voltage, in which the discharge ignition dynamics of the RF discharge burst was investigated experimentally. The spatio-temporal evolution of the discharge, the ignition time and optical emission intensities of plasma species of the RF discharge burst were investigated under different time intervals between the pulsed voltage and RF voltage in the experiment. The results show that by increasing the time interval between the pulsed discharge and RF discharge burst from 5 μs to 20 μs, the ignition time of the RF discharge burst is increased from 1.6 μs to 2.0 μs, and the discharge spatial profile of RF discharge in the ignition phase changes from a double-hump shape to a bell-shape. The light emission intensity at 706 nm and 777 nm at different time intervals indicates that the RF discharge burst ignition of the depends on the number of residual plasma species generated in the pulsed discharges.

Asymmetric Three-Phase Cascading Trinary-DC Source Multilevel Inverter Topologies for Variable Frequency PWM

Asymmetric three-phase cascading Trinary-DC source Multilevel Inverter which can achieve reduced harmonics and superior root mean square (RMS) values of the output voltage is proposed. This topology can achieve cascaded full bridge inverter operation with dissimilar (unequal) DC Source and it is fired by using variable frequency pulse with modulation technique as a switching strategy. This pulse width modulation switching strategy has a newly adopted multicarrier single reference technique. The performance parameter factors like Form Factor (FF), Crest Factor (CF), Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and fundamental RMS output voltage (VRMS) are estimated by using proposed asymmetrical three-phase cascading multilevel inverter for several modulation indices (0.8 - 1). The research study carries with MATLAB/SIMULINK based simulation and experimental results obtained using appropriate prototype (test board) to prove the viability of the proposed concept.

Study on fuzzy control of dynamic equalization based on state prediction

A new method of using dynamic equalization technology to realize the maximum energy storage utilization was presented to overcome the influence of the disaccord among units of series super capacitor （SC） bank and ensure that the units could work safely. By considering in combination with the high specific power, low working voltage, wide voltage working range and noulinear external characteristics, we present constant duty ratio pulse frequency modulation mode and fuzzy control method based on state prediction in the active equalization circuit and accomplish the software and hardware design for the equalization system. The simulation analysis and experiment results of constant current muhi-cycle and variable current multi-cycle charge-discharge process verify the validity of the design.

On-chip boost regulator with projected off- and on-time control

The boost type power supplies are widely used in portable consumer electronics to step up the input voltage to adapt for the high voltage applications like light-emitting diode(LED) driving and liquid crystal display(LCD) biasing.In these applications,a regulator with small volume,fewer external components and high efficiency is highly desired.This paper proposes a projected off-and on-time boost control scheme,based on which a monolithic IC with an on-chip VDMOS with 0.2 Ω on-state resistance RDS-ON was implemented in 1.5 μm bipolar-CMOS-DMOS(BCD) process.A 12 V,0.3 A boost regulator prototype is presented as well.With projected off-time and modulated on-time in continuous conduction mode(CCM),a quasi fixed frequency,which is preferred for ripple control,is realized.With projected on-time and modulated off-time in discontinuous conduction mode(DCM),pulse frequency modulation(PFM) operation,which is beneficial to light load efficiency improvement,is achieved without extra control circuitry.Measurement results show that an efficiency of 3% higher than that of a conventional method under 0.5 W output is achieved while a step load transient response comparable to that of current mode control is maintained as well.

A Design of Single-Switch Two-Stage DC-DC Converters With PWM And PFM for Off-Grid Solar Power System

In this paper,a single-switch two-stage DC-DC conversion circuit is proposed for an off-grid solar power application.A photovoltaic(PV)panel powers the load and a storage unit(battery)via the proposed circuit.The battery is designed to balance the supply and the demand of power under different irradiation situations.Based on conventional cascaded DC-DC converters,the proposed design is developed with the single switch technique reducing size,cost and power loss.The control scheme in this design is pulse width modulation(PWM)with pulse frequency modulation(PFM).The PWM module is similar to conventional design except its ramp signal with a variable frequency is provided by a resettable integrator.As a result,the PWM and PFM modules regulate the two stages of the proposed circuit separately with the same switching control signal.In this paper,the modes of operation of the circuit are discussed as well as the control schemes.The design process is described along with the circuit analysis and comparisons with conventional design are made as well.A prototype has been built to verify the proposed circuit with simulation and experimental results.