The main goal of this thesis is to develop an active thermal management control scheme for multi-phase current mode buck converters in order to improve the long term reliability of the converters. A thermal management unit (TMU) with independent linear compensators for the thermal loops is incorporated into the existing digital controller to regulate the current through
each phase so that equal temperature distribution is achieved across all phases. A lumped parameter thermal model of the multi-phase converter is built as the basis of the TMU.
MATLAB simulation results are used to verify the TMU concept. Experimental results from a
digitally controlled 12 V to 1 V, 50 A, 250 kHz four-phase peak current mode buck converter demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed thermal management technique in the presence of uneven air flow. The steady-state performance, dynamic transient load performance, effect of gate drive voltage and efficiency measurements are investigated and discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/29498 |
| Date | 11 August 2011 |
| Creators | Cao, Ke |
| Contributors | Ng, Wai Tung, Trescases, Olivier |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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