Agenda
8:15AM-9:00AM: Continental breakfast and introductions
9:00AM-12:00PM: Executive summary and project highlights (DLC)
12:00PM-1:00PM: Lunch in the DLC atrium
1:00PM-4:30PM: Student poster presentations and demos in the CoPEC Lab
3:00PM-3:30PM RF/Microwave Lab Tour
(1) Wide-bandwidth digital multiphase controller
(2) Digital multi-phase modulator and digital MPM prototype chip
(3) Switched mode envelope tracker design for EDGE polar transmitter
(4) System-level modeling and test bed for EDGE polar transmitter
(5) Dimmable ballast design using phase control techniques
(6) Drive architecture for RGB LED arrays
(7) Design environment for digitally controlled POL converters
(9) Dynamic dead-time optimization
(10) Self-Tuning Point-of-Load Controller: System-Identification Approach
(11) Self-Tuning Point-of-Load Controller: Relay Feedback Approach
(11a) Online power converter health monitoring
(new project) Adaptive power and tuning for RFPA
Other Projects
(15) RF energy harvesting system demo: maintenance free patient health monitoring
(16) Resistor emulation approach to low power energy harvesting
(17) Planar integrated power processor: resonant gate drive
(18) Planar integrated power processor: control and SiC test chips
Selected Additional Materials
On-line Identification of Dynamic Responses and Automated Digital Controller Design for Switching Power Converters, Botao Miao, Regan Zane, Dragan Maksimovic
Digital proximate time-optimal control for DC-DC converters, Vahid Yousefzadeh, Dragan Maksimović Eduard Alarcón, Lucy Pao
Nonlinear Control for Improved Dynamic Response of Digitally Controlled DC-DC Converters Haitao Hu, Vahid Yousefzadeh and Dragan Maksimović
High frequency digitally controlled monolithic step-down DC-DC converters M.S. Thesis defense, Aug 29, 2006 Toru Takayama Advisor: Dragan Maksimović
Hybrid DPWM with Digital Delay-Locked Loop CoPEC, Vahid Yousefzadeh, Toru Takayama, Dragan Maksimović
Small-Signal Discrete-Time Modeling of Digitally Controlled DC-DC Converters Dragan Maksimović and Regan Zane
Band separation and efficiency optimization in linear-assisted switching power amplifiers, Vahid Yousefzadeh, Eduard Alarcón, and Dragan Maksimović
Digital Control in Modular Masterless Multiphase Microprocessor Power Supplies, Yang Zhang Ph.D. Thesis defense, June 28th, 2006 Advisor: Professor Regan Zane, Co-advisor: Professor Dragan Maksimović