Wednesday, May 8, 2013

What a ride!

Thanks, Professor, for a very interesting semester.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

HW13

Can anyone provide direction on how to start this problem?  Originally I thought I would need to construct the boost input control loop to derive the equation for d(t).  To do this I created the large signal model then linearized to generate a SSM.  However, now I've confused myself after looking through the slides because I am wondering if part a is asking for large signal models of all three control loops?  Any advice is appreciated.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

HW13 (d)&(e)

Anyone having any luck with part (d) and (e) of HW13?  I'm trying to figure out if we're supposed to build our own model to do plotting, etc?

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Problem 18.14 a. choosing value of C

For 18.14 part a. I assume that we must first determine a value for C to satisfy the Gvd transfer function for the loop gain of Ti = (va/ig) * (Gc) * (1/Vm) * (Gvd). Is this the same approach other folks are using?

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

18.10d&c RMS Ripple Assumptions

In these problems it asks us to find the worst-case rms currents of the inductor, MOSFET and diode.  When it refers to rms currents is that over a line cycle such as in Table 18.3?

Furthermore, the expressions in Table 18.3 neglect the effect of switching ripple.  Does this mean that we cannot use the expressions given in Table 18.3 and that we need to derive new expressions that take into account the switching ripple with the inductor that we have chosen?

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Question for 18.1

Hello,

I am confusing about the define of the LOAD POWER in 18.1 (d). Does this contain only the power on the resistor or also contain the power both on resistor and capacitor?

Thanks.
NY

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Re for 18.2

So I am starting to confuse myself on what Re should be for 18.2.  Do we use the DCM boundary to determine the Re for DCM or is it the standard 2L/d^2Ts?  What decides Re?
It seems that because the vg/ig=Re in both the DCM of Chpt 11and in our current model, Re is the same but if this were a Cuk or Sepic then Re would be different.  Is this correct?