Lossless voltage regulation and control of the resonant switched-capacitor DC-DC converter

Abstract

This paper presents an approach for nominally lossless regulation of the output voltage, and for design of tight closed-loop voltage control of a resonant switched-capacitor (ResSC) dc-dc converter. A switching pattern for the ResSC dc-dc converter that enables wide range lossless voltage regulation and zero voltage switching (ZVS) is developed. An appropriate small signal model is derived based on the generalized averaging method. In view of the dynamics of the developed small signal transfer functions, a compensation method based on a minor phase loop is introduced to stabilize the system. The steady state and transient responses of the system are evaluated based on the developed model. The performance of the proposed controller is verified by a switch-based simulation in a design example for on-chip power delivery application.