Colorado Power Electronics Center

Annual Meeting

Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Discovery Learning Center, Engineering Center
University of Colorado at Boulder

Agenda

Listed times are Mountain Standard Time.
Presentation slides (in pdf format) will be available through the links below by Monday, November 17, 2003.

Maps & directions from DIA

8:00 - 8:30 AM: Continental breakfast

8:30 - 8:50 AM: Welcome, introductions and highlights from our 2003 research and teaching programs

Research results: Session I

8:50 - 9:10 AM: Digital control architecture for electronic ballasts: direct digital phase control and experimental FPGA platform - Yan Yin (GE)

9:10 - 9:30 AM: Simple digital controller chip for low-power DC-DC converters: test chip design - Ershad Ahmed (NSC)

9:30 - 9:50 AM: Feed-forward digital pulse-width modulators: test chip design and experimental results - Asif Syed (NSC)

9:50 - 10:10 AM: A/D converter design for current sensing: test chip design - Hao Peng (TI)

10:10 - 10:30 AM: Break

10:30 - 10:50 AM: Masterless architecture and digital control methods for multi-phase microprocessor power supplies - Yang Zhang (Artesyn)

10:50 - 11:10 PM: Digitally controlled power converters for high-efficiency RF power amplifiers - Vahid Yousefzadeh (DARPA)

11:10 - 11:30 AM: A New Family of Multilevel Matrix Converters for Wind Power Applications: Laboratory Implementation and Control - Sitthipong Angkititrakul (NREL)

11:30 - 11:50 PM: Custom spectral shaping for EMI reduction in electronic ballasts - Sandra Johnson (GE)

12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch in the DLC Foyer

12:00 - 1:00 PM: IAB breakout session over lunch

Research results: Session II -- New projects and directions

1:00 - 1:30 PM: Highlight research program for 2004, discuss proposals and opportunities

1:30 - 1:50 PM: System IC controls for backlighting in wide-screen LCD HDTV - Jianjian Bian (NSC)

1:50 - 2:10 PM: Integrated converters for energy harvesting in wireless sensors: SOI test chip design - Tian Zhao (NSF and Coleman Institute)

2:10 - 2:30 PM: System identification of power converter modules with direct digital control - Botao Miao (NASA)

2:30 - 4:30 PM: Lab tour and demonstrations, student poster sessions, informal discussions


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