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Analysis, Design and Simulation of DC-DC Boost Converter: Lovepreet Kaur Grewal and Navdeep Kaur Brar
Analysis, Design and Simulation of DC-DC Boost Converter: Lovepreet Kaur Grewal and Navdeep Kaur Brar
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M.tech, Department of Electrical Engineering, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib,
Punjab, India
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lovepreet.grewal8@gmail.com
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Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib,
Punjab, India
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navdeep.kaur@bbsbec.ac.in
ABSTRACT
The objective of this paper is to analyze, design and simulate the Boost (step-up) switching converter. The converter performance
such as load voltage, currents in capacitor and inductor, ripples of voltages and currents, etc. are analyzed and derived under
continuous operations. The design of the converter is performed to step-up the input voltage 12 v to an output voltage of 24 v.
LTspice IV programs are used to simulate the Boost switching converter operation using a very high speed MOSFET as a switch
with 20 KHz switching frequency. The simulated results are compared with theoretical and the percentage error is found to be
very small.
Dc-dc power converters are employed in a variety of output voltage VOUT, and (ii) a control unit, which is used to
applications, including power supplies for Personal computers, control the ON/OFF operation of the switching element of said
office equipment, spacecraft power systems, laptop computers, switching power supply unit.[5]
and telecommunications equipment, as well as dc motor LTspice IV is a high performance SPICE simulator, schematic
drives. The input to a dc-dc converter is an unregulated dc capture and waveform viewer with enhancements and models
voltage Vg. The converter produces a regulated output voltage for easing the simulation of switching regulators. Our
V, having a magnitude (and possibly polarity) that differs from enhancements to SPICE have made simulating switching
The dc-dc converter is a dc power supply that is small, simulators, allowing the user to view waveforms for most
lightweight & highly efficient, and uses a semiconductor switching regulators in just a few minutes. LTspice IV is
switching element. It can response quickly and suitable to freeware computer software implementing a SPICE simulator
changes in input voltage within the scope of normal operating of electronic circuits, produced by semiconductor
conditions to return to the normal operating state. It is manufacturer Linear Technology (LTC). LTspice IV provides
comprised of (i) switching power supply unit which, can turn a schematic capture and waveform viewer with enhancements
ON/OFF switching elements that can be turned ON/OFF at and models to speed the simulation of switching regulators.
Supplied with LTspice IV are macro models for 80% of LTC's instantaneously, the voltage in the inductor reverses its
switching regulators and operational amplifiers, transistors, polarity in an attempt to maintain a constant current. The
MOSFETs, and passive components.[1] current which was flowing through the switching transistor
will now flow through L, C, diode D and load. The inductor
2. THEORY OF BOOST CONVERTER current decreases until the switching transistor is turned on
The Boost converter is capable of providing as output voltage again during the next cycle. The inductor delivers its stored
that is greater than the input voltage. It is also known as a step- energy to the output capacitor, C, and charges it up via D to a
up converter. A boost converter using a MOSFET transistor as higher voltage than input voltage, V S. This energy supplies the
the switching transistor is shown in Fig-1. current and replenishes the charge drained away during the on
time.
Maximum inductor current (ILmax) = 4.25A, theoretical waveforms. The response of the output voltage is
Minimum inductor current (ILmin) = 0.5A, under damped and reaches its steady – state voltage in about
Ripple in the output voltage (dVO) = 1.2V, 1.4 ms. The simulated output ripple voltage is about 0.75 V.
Ripple in the output current (dIO) = 0.03A, The average output voltage is found to be 23.151V compared
Load resistance (R) = 20 ohm. with the theoretical of 24V.
We get the value of parameters from equation (1) and (2) as: Fig-6 shows the inductor voltage is a square wave while the
L=80µH capacitor voltage is the same wave of the output waveform.
C=42µF
LC=62.5µH
Also the converter operates in continuous conduction mode as
L ˂ LC
4. SIMULATION RESULTS
LTspice IV version 4.23i 2016 simulation programs are used
to simulate the considered Boost switching converter. Fig-4
shows the Spice models of the Boost switching converter.
REFERENCES
[1] Linear Technology. LTSpice IV.
[2] http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/
[3] Ned Mohan, Tore M. Undeland, William P. Robbins,
―Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and
Design‖, 3rd Edition, Wiley.
Fig-8: Simulated waveforms of current passing through
[4] Rashid, M. H. (Ed), (2007): Power Electronics
inductor, capacitor, diode and output current
Handbook: Devices, Circuits, and Applications.
A comparison between the theoretical and simulation results is
Florida: Elsevier Inc.
shown in Table-1.
[5] Mohammed Abdulla Abdulsada, ―Analysis, Design
TABLE-1
and Simulation of 12v/24v Boost
Parameters Theoretical Simulation Switching Converter‖, International Journal of
Input Voltage 12V 12V
Engineering Sciences & Research Technology,
PWM Voltage 5V 5V
Volume 3, no. 6, June 2014, pp. 836-846.
Output Voltage 24V 23.13V
[6] Christophe P. Basso, ―Switch-Mode Power Supplies
Ripple in Output
Voltage
1.2V 1.09V Spice Simulations and Practical Designs‖, McGraw-
Hill companies, USA, 2008.
Ripple in Inductor
3.75A 3.702A [7] Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, ―Boost Converter
Current
(online), Available from
Maximum
4.25A 4.142A
Inductor Current http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost converter‖.