A DC-DC LLC Soft Switched Resonant

Converter with Current Tripler Synchronous

Rectifier for High Current Application

Presented By
R. ARUL JOSE
A.P / EEE Dept
SCAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
Cheranmahadevi
 Need for this converter

Modern high-speed microprocessors Require:

 Fast delivery of enormous supply currents in

microsecond time frames.

 Tight supply-voltage tolerance.

Microprocessor voltage and
current roadmap
 Objective
The scope of this paper is to design a soft
switched resonant converter with following
requirements;
 Voltage regulation over wide range of load.
 Rectification Loss reduction
 Switching loss reduction
 High current application
 Series parallel resonant converter
guarantees voltage regulation over wide
range of load.
 Resonant tank provides soft switching.
 Synchronous rectification.
 Current tripler rectification.
Generalised representation of
a resonant converter
 Features of series parallel
resonant converter
 Inherent ZVS capability.

 Suitable for High frequency operation.

 Less number of Power components.

 Efficient Regulation over wide range of

load.
Proposed Converter
CURRENT TRIPLER TOPOLOGY
Synchronous Rectification
 Self Driven Method

 Control Driven Method

AC Analysis of the Proposed CONVERTER
 Design formula:
 Voltage gain: Gdc 
1
n  1 
1
f s2   f f 
1   1  2  
 j   s Q
 k  f   fs f 

 Inductor ratio: k 
Lp
Ls

Ls 1
 quality factor: Q Rac  n 2
8
RL
Lp Rac  2

1
 Series resonant frequency: fs 
2 Ls C s
 1
Series parallel resonant frequency: fm 

2 L s  L p C s

Vo
Gdc  @ f  fs 
Vin  Max  dc 

Vin  Max  dc 
n
Vo
 After the determination of Q, k, n and fs, the values of Ls, Cs and
Lp can be calculated.
OUTPUT WAVEFORMS
INDUCTOR CURRENTS
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