A New Buck Converter With Optimum-Damping and Dynamic-Slope Compensation Techniques

This paper presents a new buck converter with optimum-damping and dynamic-slope compensation techniques. The optimum-damping control is a well-known current control method, and the proposed dynamic-slope generator can achieve frequency compensation to prevent subharmonic oscillation. When the system is disturbed, the proposed dynamic-slope generator can stabilize the circuit in a single cycle. Hence, the dynamic-slope compensation can be used to replace traditional extra slope compensation in the optimum-damping-control circuit. The measured transient time of the load current is 2 μs from 50 to 500 mA, and 3 μs from 500 to 50 mA. The optimum-damping-control techniques can rapidly reach desired output voltage in 2–3 switching cycles. The experimental and simulation results confirm that the proposed approach can achieve the slope compensation and accelerate the transient response. The proposed converter has been fabricated with TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS 1P6M technology. The converter's operating frequency is 1 MHz, the maximum output current is 500 mA, and the peak power efficiency is 89.68% under 300-mA load current. The chip area is only 1.0376 mm × 1.0599 mm (include PADs).

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