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- The present invention relates to a DC-to-DC converter that converts a first input voltage into a first and second output voltage. The converter is very efficient and tightly regulates the output voltages.
- As supply voltages required for new silicon chips lower, voltages needed to power up these chips perforates to many different levels in modern computer, communication, networking, and data storage systems. As a result, the power supply modules take more and more internal space of a electronic system. Even in a electronic system using distributed power architecture, the board space taken by the power supplies increases rapidly although the power supply modules' size and volume have reduced drastically. For many applications, it is more efficient and economical to use multiple output converters in place of two or more power modules.
- A traditional way of designing multiple-output converters is to use a multiple winding transformer to provide several outputs. The topologies are often flyback or buck type topologies, either forward or double ended circuits such as bridge or push-pull circuits. FIGS. 1 and 2 shows a multiple-output converter implemented using a flyback and forward converter respectively.
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power converter 100 is shown having asingle input voltage 102 and a first andsecond output voltage switch 108 controls the flow of current to apower transformer 110. Thepower transformer 110 has aprimary winding 112 and a firstsecondary winding 114 and a secondsecondary winding 116. - The
converter 100 is also known as a “forward converter.” It uses a pair of rectifyingdiodes converter 100 also has a pair of freewheeling diodes 122, 124. - FIG. 2 is a multiple-
output converter 200 also having aninput voltage 202 and a first andsecond output voltage switch 208 controls the flow of current to apower transformer 210. Thepower transformer 210 has aprimary winding 212 and a firstsecondary winding 214 and a secondsecondary winding 216. It also uses a pair of rectifyingdiodes - Both
prior art converters - Since the above circuits are relatively easy to implement, they have been used in the industry for years, especially in applications where output voltages are allowed to vary over a certain range such as PC power supplies. Many power supply designers are familiar with the topologies and understand design trade-off. They developed various methods to deal with the cross regulation issue caused by variations of voltage drops across the rectifying devices and output filter inductors such as weighted voltage control and the frequency modulation (FM) coupled with pulse width modulation (PWM) method. These techniques, however, are not without drawbacks. The former control method does not eliminate cross regulation errors but rather redistribute the errors in a controlled manner so designers have the freedom to choose which output is more tightly controlled than the other. The latter can eliminate cross regulation error by introduce another control variable the switching frequency in addition to PWM control. It requires variable frequency control and discontinuous conduction mode operation, both of which are highly undesirable in many applications.
- Schlecht disclosed a new circuit in U.S. Pat. No. 5,999,417 that can be used to implement multiple output converters by adding another secondary winding on each transformer as shown in FIG. 3. The
converter 300 takes aninput voltage 302 and creates a first andsecond output voltage second switch capacitor 312 and aninductor 314. These components are collectively referred to as a “buck converter” 316. The buck converter establishes an intermediate bus voltage, atpoint 318. Twopower transformers power transformer - In light of the problems and drawbacks associated with the prior arts, what is needed is a circuit that can provide tightly regulated outputs with relatively simple structure.
- The present invention relates to a new set of dc-to-dc converter topologies. The basic circuit common to each embodiment includes a buck converter to provide an intermediate bus voltage, a double-ended circuit, a single power transformer and at least one output voltage circuit. The new converters are tightly regulated and provide consistent voltage levels even when one output voltage circuit is experiencing a high load. The new converter designs are also highly efficient. They contain fewer active and passive elements than prior art converters and avoid unnecessary duplication of parts.
- The front end of the circuit is a buck converter. Buck converters are well known in the art and are used to provide an intermediate bus voltage. A double-ended circuit is then used to couple the buck converter to a power transformer. The double-ended circuit can be either a full bridge circuit, or a push-pull circuit. The full bridge circuit is the preferred embodiment. It includes two pair of switches, each pair operating at a fixed duty cycle, typically an approximately 50% duty cycle. The first pair of switches operate out of phase with a second pair of switches. Further, either pair of switches comprises a first switch on a first terminal of the primary winding a second switch on a second terminal of the primary winding.
- The power transformer has a primary and a secondary winding. In one embodiment, a single secondary winding is used. In another embodiment, two secondary windings are used. An output voltage circuit is coupled to each. In another embodiment, a single secondary winding is used with two output voltage circuit coupled to different terminals on the secondary winding. The output voltage circuits use rectifying devices, either rectifying diodes or rectifying switches. Additional drive windings can be used between the rectification switches and the secondary windings. Further, additional bias voltage circuits can be coupled to the power transformer.
- The novel features believed characteristic of the invention are set forth in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, as well as a preferred mode of use, further objectives and advantages thereof, will best be understood by reference to the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
- FIGS. 1 and 2 are schematic diagrams of prior art DC-to-DC converters;
- FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a prior art DC-to-DC converter having a buck converter to supply an intermediate bus voltage to two power transformers;
- FIGS. 4A and 4B are DC-to-DC converters using a full bridge or push pull topology in cascade with a buck converter and thus embodies the basic embodiment of the present invention;
- FIG. 5 is a DC-to-DC converter similar to FIG. 4 except that it includes two output voltage circuits;
- FIG. 6 is a DC-to-DC converter similar to FIG. 5 except that it uses self-driven synchronous rectification instead of rectifying diodes;
- FIG. 7 is a DC-to-DC converter similar to FIG. 6 except that it uses a single secondary winding and two drive windings for the synchronous rectification; and
- FIG. 8 is a DC-to-DC converter similar to FIG. 7 except that an additional secondary winding is coupled to the power transformer for production of a control voltage Vcc.
- FIG. 4A illustrates a DC-to-
DC converter 400 implemented using a buck converter 402 followed by a double-ended converter which can be either afull bridge 404 or a push-pull topology. To illustrate the concept of the invention, the full bridge circuit is discussed hereinafter. The same operation principle can be applied to the push-pull circuit with very minor design changes. Those who are skilled in the art should realize that the following description can be extended easily to the push-pull circuit without deviation of the sprit of the concept proposed here. The full bridge circuit includes two pair ofswitches 410/412, and 414/416. When switches 410/412 are on,switches 414/416 are off. Thus, current will flow throughswitch 410, through the primary winding ofpower transformer 406 and throughswitch 412. The switches are controlled by the same signal and timed to a fixed duty cycle. The duty cycle is preferably a 50% duty cycle, but could be approximately 50%. In other words, for certain applications, the duty cycle could be varied to as much as 45% to 55%. - The buck converter402 establishes a well-regulated bus voltage while the
bridge circuit 404 acts like a DC/DC transformer by operating all the bridge switches with the fixed duty cycle. The filter inductor is on the primary side and therefore the power loss is extremely low at the secondary side especially for low output voltage with high current applications. The secondary circuit has onlyrectifiers - In the above description, the synchronized operation between the buck converter and the double-ended converter is not specifically required. In practical design, however, it is often desirable to have the operation of the buck converter in synchronization with the following double-ended converter if the operating frequencies are close to each other. FIG. 4B illustrates a
similar circuit 450 with a push-pull bridge circuit 454. - FIG. 5 extends the circuit in FIG. 4 to a
dual output converter 500 by adding another winding to the secondary. Thepower transformer 506 has a first secondary winding 508 and a second secondary winding 510. Switches Q1 and Q2, inductor L1 and capacitor C2 form abuck converter 502 , establishing an intermediate bus voltage. Switches Q3, Q4, Q5, and Q6, and inductor L2 form a currentfed bridge circuit 504. Further switches Q3, Q4, Q5, and Q6 operate at 50% duty cycle. The rectified secondary voltages are directly fed to the outputs without extra inductors. The output voltage is simply the intermediate bus voltage times the transformer's turns ratio. Since there are no inductors on the secondary sides, the voltage differences caused by the inductors are eliminated. If synchronous rectifiers are used, the voltage drops across the rectifiers are further reduced, and therefore the output voltages are tightly cross-regulated. Another advantage of this circuit is that there is only onepower transformer 506 needed in the circuit, thus reducing parts count and simplifying the overall structure. - The output voltage regulation can be achieved by using various feedback control methods. A simple control method is to sense one of the output voltages and feedback the error signal to the controller. The unsensed output is cross-regulated. Another control method is to use weighted voltage model control. The feedback signal is derived from the weighted sum of the output voltages. Elimination of the secondary filter inductors reduces cross regulation errors greatly compared with what presented in the aforementioned prior art embodiments.
- FIG. 6 presents a DC-to-
DC converter 600 using synchronous rectification instead of rectifying diodes on the secondary. The secondary synchronous rectifier MOSFETs can be either self-driven or externally driven. For the self-driven version as shown in the figureextra windings power transformer 606, providing drive voltage for thesynchronous rectifier MOSFETs 620, 622, 624, 626 (Q7-Q10). It is noted that the energy stored in the gate of MOSFETs is recovered each time when the voltage across the power transformer T1 changes polarity, providing lossless gate drive to all the synchronous rectifier MOSFETs. - If both outputs are referenced to the same secondary ground, the secondary windings can be rearranged to simplify the circuit. FIG. 7 illustrates this simplified version of the proposed multiple output DC/
DC converter 700 using abuck converter 702 followed by afull bridge topology 704 with self-driven synchronous rectifiers. The winding for Vout2 is stacked with the Vout1 winding. Stacking up the windings simplifies the power transformer design. When the converter is operating under extreme conditions, i.e., one at full load and the other at light load, no windings are idling. Better yet the synchronous rectifier FETs share windings Nd1 and Nd2 for generating driving signals. The total number of windings on the power transformer is further reduced. The transformer design is greatly simplified. - The circuit demonstrated in FIG. 7 can be modified to generate bias voltages for the both primary and secondary control circuits as shown in FIG. 8. FIG. 8 shows a multiple output DC/
DC converter 800 formed by a buck converter followed by a full bridge converter. The second output shares part of the winding of the first output. Secondary synchronous rectification is implemented by using MOSFETs. Npcc, CR1, and CR2 provide the first bias voltage Vcc1. The second bias voltageVccs can be obtained in the same way. Here a different implementation, however, is presented. CR1 and CR2 are added to the circuit. After rectification through CR1 and CR2, the gate drive voltage derived from Nd1 and Nd2 for the secondary synchronous rectifier MOSFETs is converted to a DC voltage, Vccs, powering the secondary control circuitry. - Those skilled in the art should understand that the previously described embodiments of the synchronous rectifier control scheme are submitted for illustrative purposes only and other embodiments thereof are well within the scope and spirit of the present invention. Although the present invention has been described in detail, those skilled in the art should understand that they can make various changes, substitutions and alterations herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention in its broadest form.
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