THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

ECE 9403/9043a - HIGH FREQUENCY POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS

Assignment #1

Answer all questions. All questions are of equal value.

1 A buck converter has an input of 60 V and an output of 25 V. The load resistor is 9 , the
switching frequency is 20 kHz, L = 1 mH, and C = 200 F.

(a) Determine the duty ratio.

(b) Determine the average, peak, and rms inductor currents.
(c) Determine the average source current.
(d) Determine the peak and average diode current.

Confirm your answers using PSIM.

2. Design the inductor of a 50 kHz buck-boost converter that is to supply a load of 75 W at 50

V from a 40 V source. The inductor current peak ripple must be no more than 5%. Confirm
your result using PSIM.

3. Design a 30 kHz boost converter that is to supply a 20 W load at 15 V from a 5 V supply.

The minimum inductor current must be no less than 50% of the average and the peak output
voltage ripple must be less than 1%. Confirm your result using PSIM.

4. Capacitors in dc-dc converters have an equivalent series resistance (ESR) that is often
considered in calculations related to efficiency. Consider the converter shown below, which
has an output filter capacitor modeled with an ESR value of RC. Assuming that all L's and C's
are infinite, determine Vo as a function of Vs, Is, D, and RC. If Is = 10 A, D = 0.25, RC = 0.1
and RL = 0.5 , what is Vo. Confirm your result using PSIM.

5. A 100 V regulated dc-dc converter must be designed using an unregulated 50-200 V source.
There are two possible ways of designing the converter. The first is to use a buck-boost
 converter; the second is to use a buck converter that produces an intermediate voltage Vm
followed by a boost converter that boosts Vm to 100 V. For the second converter, determine a
value for Vm (in terms of the duty ratios that the two converters must operate) that will allow
it to operate with minimal switch current and voltage stresses. Justify your answer. Confirm
your analysis using PSIM.

6. Using PSIM, simulate the two ZVT-PWM boost converters that were discussed in class - the
Hua, Leu, Jian, Lee paper and the Streit and Tollik paper. Show all pertinent waveforms -
especially the main switch current and voltage waveforms (thus proving that your converter
operates with ZVS) and the gating signals of the two switches. You may use the component
values in the papers and use a dc input voltage source in place of an ac voltage source.