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Morphing Switched-Capacitor Step-Down

DCDC Converters with Variable
Conversion Ratio
Introduction:
High-voltage-gain, wide input range DCDC converters are widely
applied in various electronics and industrial products, where the
common power bus voltage (e.g. 12 V, 24 V, 48 V) is much higher than
the voltage of the loads required (e.g. 1 V1.8 V for point-of-loads, 0.4
V for processors supply voltage by 2026). On the other hand, a battery
backup sub-system is typically required in some of these systems. The
output voltage of a battery can vary widely according to its state-ofcharge, e.g. 18 V58 V for 42 V automotive systems, 36 V72 V in
telecommunication applications. Therefore, the design of a high-voltagegain, wide-input-range converter is important.
A conventional solution applied to high-voltage-gain conversion is
through the use of single-stage non-isolated converters, e.g. the buck
converter. This, however, will require the buck converter to work at an
extremely low duty ratio, i.e., D = Vo/Vin, which leads to many issues.
First, operating the converter at a very low duty cycle gives a low
efficiency. Second, the extremely low duty ratio also limits the dynamic
respond as the room of reducing the duty ratio is limited. Third, there is
a limit to the operating input voltage range of the converter. This is
similar for other single stage converters, such as the buck-boost, C uk,
Sepic, and Zeta converters.

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Existing system:
A family of exponential voltage step-down switched-capacitor
(ESC) converters is introduced. The two-stage converter has been an
effective solution for high-voltage-step-down applications. The largevoltage-gain conversion property of the ESC converter, a two-stage
ESC-buck converter is proposed.

Drawbacks:

Performs only voltage transformation.

Voltage conversion ratio is typically fixed.

Proposed system:
An unregulated variable-conversion-ratio morphing switchedcapacitor (SC) converter is proposed as the front-end converter of the
two-stage converter. This morphing SC converter is composed of many
highly-efficient modules of SC cells, of which the variable conversion
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ratio is achieved through the morphing control of the SC converter. The

principle is to morph the operating number of modular SC cells
according to the amplitude of the input voltage of the front-end
converter to achieve the highest possible conversion efficiency.

Advantages:

The conversion ratio of this converter is adapted to the input

voltage to give a specified range of the output voltage.
Each SC module is optimally design to achieve a very high
efficiency.
The converter is easily extendable with the additional cascade of
more SC modules.
It is highly compact with low weight and small size.
The modular design leads to availability, maintainability, flexible
system structure, and layout.
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Applications:

Portable devices.
Telecommunication systems.
Automotive systems.
Aerospace system

Block diagram:
DC Supply
DC Supply

Switched
Capacitor
Converter

Load

DC Supply

12V DC

Isolation Circuit

Buffer Circuit
5V DC
Microcontroller
Circuit
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