A Low Power Buck Converter

Using Coupled Inductor

Objective

To propose a A low power Buck Converter

using

coupled

inductor

in

which

corresponding voltage is lower than that of

rectified buck converter.

Abstract
The objective of low power converter is
improves for efficiency and proper output
voltage can be obtained.
To reduce the voltage stress and switching
losses.

Literature survey
TITLE

AUTHOR YEAR

DESCRIPTION

A novel non-isolated Sheng Ye, W. Jan. 2008

full bridge topology for Eberle
VRM applications

The new topology is called the nonisolated full bridge (NFB). In

comparison to the interleaved Buck
converter

A family of interleaved W. Li and X. Jul. 2008

DC-DC
converters He
deduced from a basic
cell with winding-crosscoupled
inductors
(WCCIs) for high stepup
or
step-down
conversions

A basic cell with winding-crosscoupled inductors (WCCIs) and

interleaved structure is proposed in
this paper.

TITLE

AUTHOR YEAR

DESCRIPTION

A
wide-inputwide H. Cheng, K. Feb. 2010
output (WIWO) DC M. Smedley
DC converter

The paper propose for the coupled

inductors, wide-step-up and widestep-down DC-DC conversions are
realized

Resonant voltage
divider with
bidirectional operation
and startup considered

In this paper, a resonant voltage

divider (RVD) is presented with the
fixed switching frequency and used
as a bus converter.

K. I. Hwu and Apr. 2012

Y. T. Yau

Nonisolated
flyback K. Jin, L. Gu
switching
capacitor
voltage regulator

Aug. 2013

The converter is a combination of a

switching capacitor converter and a
pulsewidth modulation voltage
regulator

Problem Indentified
TITLE

DISADVANTAGES

A novel non-isolated full bridge topology Harmonics is high.

for VRM applications
A family of interleaved DC-DC converters cost is high, because topology size is
deduced from a basic cell with winding- large
cross-coupled inductors (WCCIs) for high
step-up or step-down conversions

A wide-inputwide output (WIWO) DCDC Snubber loss is high.

converter
Resonant voltage divider with bidirectional
operation and startup considered

Component size is large.

Nonisolated flyback switching capacitor

Switching loss is produced.

Existing system

They existing system a step down converter. If

in this case transformer is adapted, the PCB
space becomes large, leading to difficulty in
applications.

Block diagram

Circuit diagram

Drawbacks

Large PCB space

Low efficiency
Number of

Proposed system
Based on a converter, a new low power buck
converter using coupled inductor is proposed,
which utilizes lower components and output
can be protected.

Block diagram

Circuit diagram

Advantage
Lower number of components
Better efficiency
Proper output is obtained.

Specification
Software
MATLAB R2009b

Hardware Components
Controller Section
Resistor
Capacitor
Inductor
MOSFET Switching Device

Application
laptop computers
batteries
LED power sources

Reference
1. K. I. Hwu and Y. T. Yau, Resonant voltage divider with
bidirectional operation and startup considered, IEEE Trans.
Power Electron., vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 19962006, Apr. 2012.
2. W. Li and X. He, A family of interleaved DC-DC converters
deduced from a basic cell with winding-cross-coupled inductors
(WCCIs) for high step-up or step-down conversions, IEEE
Trans. Power Electron., vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 17911801, Jul.
2008.

Thank you