Converter, synchronous

Are there any circuits that are particularly noise-sensitive These include analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, video monitors, etc. This may dictate that the supply has additional filtering or may need to be synchronized to the sensitive circuit. 

For those applications where high efficiency is important, synchronous rectification may be used on the higher current (power) outputs. Synchronous rectifier circuits are much more complicated than the passive 2-leaded rectifier circuits. These are power MOSFE B, which are utilized in the reverse conduction direction where the anti-parallel intrinsic diode conducts. The MOSFET is turned on whenever the rectifier is required to conduct, thus reducing the forward voltage drop to less than O.f V. Synchronous rectifiers can be used only when the diode current flows in the forward direction, that is in continuousmode forward converters. 

As seen in Section 4.1, the major types of losses are the conduction and switching losses. Conduction losses are addressed by selecting a better power switch or rectifier with a lower conduction voltage. The synchronous rectifier can be used to reduce the conduction loss of a rectifier, but it can only be used for forward-mode topologies, and excludes the discontinuous boost-mode converters. The synchronous rectifier will improve the efficiency of a power supply about one to six percent depending upon the average operating duty cycle of the supply. For further improvements, other techniques must be pursued. 

Figure 4-19 The gain and phase Bode plots for design example 4.7.1 (a) the gain plot for the synchronous buck converter (b) the phase plot for the buck synchronous converter.

Electric power is almost always transmitted as three-phase AC current. In domestic use, current is often distributed from a substation at 13,200, 6,600, or 2,300 V, which is stepped down by a transformer close to the point of use to 600, 480, and 240 V for three-phase current for commercial power and 240 and 120 V for single-phase, three-wire current for household power and lights. If DC current is required, synchronous converters or rectifiers are used to convert the AC supply to DC. 

Inverter-AC Motor Drives. An adjustable-frequency control of AC motors provide efficient operation with the use of brushless, high-performance induction, and synchronous motors. A typical system is shown in Figure. 3-14. Such a system consists of a rectifier (which provides DC power from the AC line) and an inverter (which converts the DC power to acljustable-frequency AC power for the motor). Inverter cost per kilowatt is about twice that of controller rectifiers thus the power convertor for an AC drive can approach three times the cost of a DC drive. 

The bacterial culture converts a portion of the supplied nutrient into vegetative cells, spores, crystalline protein toxin, soluble toxins, exoenzymes, and metabolic excretion products by the time of complete sporulation of the population. Although synchronous growth is not necessary, nearly simultaneous sporulation of the entire population is desired in order to obtain a uniform product. Depending on the manner of recovery of active material for the product, it will contain the insolubles including bacterial spores, crystals, cellular debris, and residual medium ingredients plus any soluble materials which may be carried with the fluid constituents. Diluents, vehicles, stickers, and chemical protectants, as the individual formulation procedure may dictate, are then added to the harvested fermentation products. The materials are used experimentally and commercially as dusts, wettable powders, and sprayable liquid formulations. Thus, a... 

In our system the data collection process is essentially a passive slave to the chromatograph, which is controlled by its own internal microprocessor. An amplifier matches the voltage output from the strip chart recorder terminals on the chromatograph to the A/D converter input. The data collection program uses the "Equilibration Pulse" and "Injection Pulse" relay closures shown in Figure 1 to synchronize the data collection process with the operation of the autosampler on the chromatograph. 

Bad Layout Can Cost You 10% Efficiency Even in Synchronous Converters... 

The following arguments apply to a Synchronous Buck converter, too (with the Schottky diode placed across the lower Fet), but the effects can be much more severe in a Boost because of the typically higher voltages involved. 

The first question you need to ask is, is your efficiency really bad For example, if you have a worldwide input Flyback of around 70W, you should not be expecting much better than 70% at an input of 90VAC (for the common 5V/12V output rail combinations). For a Synchronous Buck converter, you can expect around 90% at max load, but at very light loads the efficiency will fall much lower. So first assure yourself you really have a problem. And don t forget that this measurement needs Kelvin sensing as described previously (see Chapter 2). 

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