An 8W-2MHz buck converter with adaptive dead time tolerant to radiation and high magnetic field

  • S. Michelis
  • , B. Allongue
  • , G. Blanchot
  • , S. Buso
  • , F. Faccio
  • , C. Fuentes
  • , A. Marchioro
  • , S. Orlandi
  • , S. Saggini
  • , G. Spiazzi
  • , M. Kayal

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Abstract

A high efficiency 8W-2MHz ASIC buck converter tolerant to radiation and high magnetic field is presented. A new adaptive control circuit for the dead time management is integrated to increase the efficiency during quasi-square wave (QSW) operation. The ASIC is designed in the IHP SGB25GOD 0.25μm technology and developed for the Large Handron Collider (LHC) experiments upgrade, where the main constrains are the presence of a severe radiation environment (up to hundreds of Mrad), a high magnetic field (up to 4 Tesla) and mass limitation because extra material is detrimental to the physics performance of the detector.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationESSCIRC 2010 - 36th European Solid State Circuits Conference
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages438-441
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781424466641
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameESSCIRC 2010 - 36th European Solid State Circuits Conference

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