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© 2022 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes,creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works., This paper presents a neural network-generalized predictive control (NN-GPC) for a single-phase grid-connected z-source inverter. The NN forecasts the predictive horizon, and the conventional GPC algorithm calculates the control horizon. The results verify the proposed NN-GPC effectively enhances the dynamic operation of z-source inverter regarding the non-minimum phase characteristics of these converters., The authors would like to thank the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN)-Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), by grant PGC2018-098946-B-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by ERDF A way of making Europe., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

© 2022 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes,creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works., Community Microgrid offers effective energy harvesting from distributed energy resources and efficient energy consumption by employing an energy management system (EMS). Therefore, the collaborative microgrids are essentially required to apply an EMS, underlying an operative control strategy in order to provide an efficient system. An EMS is apt to optimize the operation of microgrids from several points of view. Optimal production planning, optimal demand-side management, fuel and emission constraints, the revenue of trading spinning and non-spinning reserve capacity can effectively be managed by EMS. Consequently, the importance of optimization is explicit in microgrid applications. In this paper, the most common control strategies in the microgrid community with potential pros and cons are analyzed. Moreover, a comprehensive review of single objective and multi-objective optimization methods is performed by considering the practical and technical constraints, uncertainty, and intermittency of renewable energies sources. The Pareto-optimal solution as the most popular multi-objective optimization approach is investigated for the advanced optimization algorithms. Eventually, feature selection and neural network-based clustering algorithms in order to analyze the Pareto-optimal set are introduced., This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN)–Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), and by the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), a way of making Europe, under Grant PGC2018-098946-B-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

Stand-alone Microgrids (MGs) can effectively be utilized to provide the energy demand for different purposes, such as reducing the burden of the main grid. Paying attention to harvesting renewable energies in MGs resulted in coming up with networked MG (NMG) in recent years. Unlike individual MGs, there is no prominent study on component sizing in NMG. In this paper, a novel component sizing procedure is proposed for NMG. The proposed procedure is based on the optimal operation of each individual MGs. The proposed reduced factor (RF) determines the size reduction of each component in NMG. In order to validate the proposed method, the NMG's operation is evaluated according to the calculated component's size. The results show, in NMG, the capital cost can reduce significantly due to the possibility of power-sharing amongst MGs., Postprint (published version)

© 2021 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes,creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works., Stand-alone Microgrids (MGs) can effectively be utilized to provide the energy demand for different purposes, such as reducing the burden of the main grid. Paying attention to harvesting renewable energies in MGs resulted in coming up with networked MG (NMG) in recent years. Unlike individual MGs, there is no prominent study on component sizing in NMG. In this paper, a novel component sizing procedure is proposed for NMG. The proposed procedure is based on the optimal operation of each individual MGs. The proposed reduced factor (RF) determines the size reduction of each component in NMG. In order to validate the proposed method, the NMG's operation is evaluated according to the calculated component's size. The results show, in NMG, the capital cost can reduce significantly due to the possibility of power-sharing amongst MGs., The authors would like to thank the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN)‐Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), by grant PGC2018‐098946‐B‐I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by ERDF. A way of making Europe., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

This paper introduces a new equivalent circuit for linear DC networks containing independent voltage and/or current sources and resistors, which represents all internal losses. Since the equivalent-modeling proposal does allow the determination of the efficiency of the original circuit or of all power dissipated in the internal resistors, it can be used for both the power and efficiency analysis of the real linear networks. The proposed equivalent circuit can be considered an extension to and differs from those proposed by Thévenin, and other subsequent proposals with regard to its conservativeness in relation to the actual circuit. Therefore, the paper also demonstrates that there is a direct relation between the model presented here and that proposed by Thévenin., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

This paper presents a 4-channel ultra-wideband (UWB) timed array beamforming receiver designed in a standard 0.18-um CMOS technology. The proposed timed array receiver achieves a maximum delay of 250 ps at the maximum beam steering angle of +/-42o with 10.5o (8 steps) steering resolution and 2-cm antenna spacing. Each receiver channel provides gains ranging from 3.6 to -35 dB and less than 8% delay variation for all delay settings over a 3.1-10.6-GHz frequency range, while consuming a maximum of 58 mW power from a 1.8-V supply. The average -1-dB compression point P1dB is -9.9 dBm. The proposed architecture is modeled and simulated by using Virtuoso Cadence., This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (MICINN)- ´ Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI) and the European ´ Regional Development Funds (FEDER), by project PGC2018- 098946-B-I00., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (author's final draft)

Chlorination in drinking water treatment plants (DWTP) is the final process applied to water before it is sent to storage tanks in the supply network for subsequent human consumption. An excessive dosage of chlorine or, conversely, too small a dosage, may breach existing legal regulations on mandatory limits. Furthermore, excessive amounts generate an unnecessary cost in terms of chlorine and, collaterally, problems due to an increase in the maximum permitted amounts of such by-products as trihalomethanes, which are carcinogenic compounds for humans. In DWTP where there is no significant variability in the quality of the water to be treated, a type of control that is proportional to the flow rate in the effluent can have fully satisfactory results. However, in a control strategy applied when there are inherently long delays in the process, variability in the quality of the water to be treated and considerable variations in flow, a proportional type of control does not tend to work and an alternative type is needed. This article presents the strategy and results of a control method that combines a feed-forward system with gain scheduling in a PI control. The control system design was validated beforehand by simulation and then applied to a real DWTP, producing satisfactory experimental results., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works., Micro-size hydro power plants (µHPPs) are commonly used at remote areas to supply islanded AC microgrids. A typical way to control grid frequency is to manipulate active power dissipated in ballast loads by AC/AC converters. However, these asymmetrically switched thyristor controlled converters consume reactive power degrading the power factor at the generator output. In this paper the operation of a symmetric angle switched, bridged three-phase rectifier and three single-phase rectifiers connected in series with ballast load, are studied to improve the power factor of the system. As a consequence, the objective is to evaluated the use of the three and single-phase rectifiers switched with symmetrical angle to improve the power factor, by reactive power compensation, at the output terminal of the electric generator of µHPPs that use ballast load to regulate frequency., Postprint (published version)

© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works., Chlorination in drinking water treatment plants (DWTP) is the final process applied to water before it is sent to storage tanks in the supply network for subsequent human consumption. An excessive dosage of chlorine or, conversely, too small a dosage, may breach existing legal regulations on mandatory limits. In DWTP where there is no significant variability in the quality of the water to be treated, a type of control that is proportional to the flow rate in the effluent can have fully satisfactory results. Therefore, Proportional-Integral (PI) control is a rather frequently used solution. However, when there are inherently long delays in the process, variability in the quality of the water to be treated and considerable variations alternative type is needed. This article presents the strategy and results of a control method that proposes a Fuzzy based feed-forward system to complement an existing PI control. The control system results are shown as applied to the DWTP of Barcelona city, producing satisfactory experimental results., Postprint (author's final draft)

This article aims to present the design of a 4.5-V, 450-mA low drop-out (LDO) voltage linear regulator based on a two-stage cascoded operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) as error amplifier. The aforementioned two-stage OTA is designed with cascoded current mirroring technique to boost up the output impedance. The proposed OTA has a DC gain of 101 dB under no load condition. The designed reference voltage included in the LDO regulator is provided by a band gap reference with the temperature coefficient (T¿) of 0.025 mV/ºC. The proposed LDO regulator has a maximum drop-out voltage of 0.5 V @ 450 mA of load current, and has the worst case power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) of [54.5 dB, 34.3 dB] @ [100 Hz, 10 kHz] in full load condition. All the proposed circuits are designed using a 0.35 µm CMOS technology. The design is checked in order to corroborate its performance for wide range of input voltage, founding that the circuit design works fine meeting all the initial specification requirements., Postprint (published version)

Micro-size hydro power plants (µHPPs) are commonly used at remote areas to supply islanded AC micro-grids. A typical way to control grid frequency is to manipulate active power dissipated in ballast loads by AC/AC converters. However, these asymmetrically switched thyristor controlled converters consume reactive power degrading the power factor at the generator output. In this paper the operation of a symmetric angle switched, bridged three-phase rectifier and three single-phase rectifiers connected in series with ballast load, are studied to improve the power factor of the system. As a consequence, the objective is to evaluated the use of the three and single-phase rectifiers switched with symmetrical angle to improve the power factor, by reactive power compensation, at the output terminal of the electric generator of µHPPs that use ballast load to regulate frequency., Postprint (published version)

This article presents an agile supply modulator with optimal transient performance that includes improvement in rise time, overshoot and settling time for the envelope tracking supply in linear power amplifiers. For this purpose, we propose an on-demand current source module: the bang-bang transient performance enhancer (BBTPE). Its objective is to follow fast variations in input signals with reduced overshoot and settling time without deteriorating the steady-state performance of the buck regulator. The proposed approach enables fast system response through the BBTPE and an accurate steady-state output response through a low switching ripple and power efficient dynamic buck regulator. Fast output response with the help of the added module induces a slower rise of inductor current in the buck converter that further helps the proposed system to reduce both overshoot and settling time. This article also introduces an efficient selective tracking of envelope signal for linear PAs. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed solution, extensive simulations and experimental results from a discrete system are reported. The proposed supply modulator shows 80% improvement in rise time along with 60% reduction in both overshoot and settling time compared to the conventional dynamic buck regulator-based solution. Experimental results using the LTE 16-QAM 5 MHz standard shows improvement of 7.68 dB and 65.1% in adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) and error vector magnitude (EVM), respectively., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (author's final draft)

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This paper presents the design of an LDO-assisted DC-DC voltage regulator in Cadence Virtuoso® based on a 350-nm CMOS technology. This kind of voltage regulator consists of a switching converter together with a classic or LDO (low dropout) linear voltage regulator. While the linear regulator provides the constant output voltage, the switching converter conducts nearly all the current provided to the output load, and keeping the regulator current close to zero where the higher efficiency is achieved. In addition, this paper shows the modeling in Matlab/Simulink. Notice that, this modeling is mandatory in order to predict and assure the stability of the circuit. In addition, it will help to improve the transient response and performance of the circuit., Postprint (published version)

This paper shows the modeling of a linear–assisted or hybrid (linear & switching) DC–DC converters. In this kind of converters, an auxiliary linear regulator is used, which objective is to cancel the ripple at the output voltage and provide fast responses for load variations. On the other hand, a switching converter, connected in parallel with the linear regulator, allows to supply almost the whole output current demanded by the load. The objective of this topology is to take advantage of the suitable regulation characteristics that series linear voltage regulators have, but almost achieving the high efficiency that switching DC–DC converters provide. Linear–assisted DC–DC converters are feedback systems with potential instability. Therefore, their modeling is mandatory in order to obtain design guidelines and assure stability of the implemented power supply system., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

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© 20xx IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting /republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works, Pollution in coastal areas is very hazardous for population. The problem is even higher when this pollution occurs in bathing areas such as beaches in populated areas. In this work we present a new automatic control application for wastewater plants when pollution is caused by those plants because there is an excess of water to be treated and it is thrown to the sea with high levels of biological pollutants (bacteria...). Those problems can be aggravated if climatic conditions pull to the coastal area the untreated water without the cleaning action of sea water. The experimentation is done with real data and real conditions in Barcelona area, at Mediterranean sea, with the urban wastewater plant of Besòs, Peer Reviewed, Postprint (author's final draft)

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© 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting /republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works, Pollution in coastal areas is very hazardous for population. The problem is even higher when this pollution occurs in bathing areas such as beaches in populated areas. In this work we present a new automatic control application for wastewater plants when pollution is caused by those plants because there is an excess of water to be treated and it is thrown to the sea with high levels of biological pollutants (bacteria...). Those problems can be aggravated if climatic conditions pull to the coastal area the untreated water without the cleaning action of sea water. The experimentation is done with real data and real conditions in Barcelona area, at Mediterranean sea, with the urban wastewater plant of Beso`s, Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

This paper presents an output-capacitorless class-AB low-dropout (LDO) regulator with load current sinking and sourcing ability. The proposed LDO consists of two complementary pass transistors, controlled using a level shifter technique. The transient improvement section applied to the gates of the pass devices enhances the transient performance of the LDO. The proposed LDO is designed in TSMC 0.18 µm CMOS process with input and output voltages of 1.2-2.5 V and 1 V, respectively, 10 pF output capacitor, and quiescent current of 3.14 µA, and is capable to sink and source maximum load currents of ±100 mA, giving the current efficiency of 99.99%., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

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This article presents the design of a 4.5-V, 450-mA low drop-out (LDO) voltage linear regulator based on a two-stage cascoded operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) as error amplifier. The aforementioned two-stage OTA is designed with cascoded current mirroring technique to boost up the output impedance. The proposed OTA has a DC gain of 101 dB under no load condition. The designed reference voltage included in the LDO regulator is provided by a band gap reference with the temperature coefficient (T¿) of 0.025 mV/ºC. The proposed LDO regulator has a maximum drop-out voltage of 0.5 V @ 450 mA of load current, and has the worst case power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) of [54.5 dB, 34.3 dB] @ [100 Hz, 10 kHz] in full load condition. All the proposed circuits are designed using a 0.35 µm CMOS technology. The design is checked in order to corroborate its performance for wide range of input voltage, founding that the circuit design works fine meeting all the initial specification requirements., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

This paper deals with a circuit proposal along with theoretical analysis to provide a solution for enhancing the stability and transient performance of external capacitorless low-dropout regulators (CL-LDOs) by segmenting the pass transistor to smaller sizes. The stability and transient analysis is carried out on the CL-LDO with two different size-segmented pass transistors in comparison with the conventional CL-LDO with single large size pass device. The analysis shows that the pass transistor segmentation leads to better stability, i.e., greater phase margin especially at no-load and light-load conditions, wider bandwidth, and improved transient behavior, i.e., lower settling time and output voltage deviations due to the load transients. The aforementioned topologies are modeled and validated in HSPICE using a 0.35 µm CMOS process, and the results are in conformity with the analytical statements., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

In this paper, a new structure based on linear-assisted DC-DC buck converter principle is proposed. Using a new class-AB LDO regulator instead of the conventional linear one (based on a push-pull output stage) in the hybrid scheme, reduces the difference between input and output voltages and also the switching frequency of the buck converter. Thus, the proposal achieves higher power efficiency rather than the conventional linear-assisted converter, desired for power management systems of battery operated devices like biomedical implants and energy harvesting applications. In addition, the circuit provides a lower output ripple and better transient response. A comparison analysis is done with regards to the considered performance indexes between the proposed structure and linear-assisted buck converter, and the results are validated in HSPICE in a 0.35 µm CMOS process., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

This paper deals with a comprehensive study and comparison on the conventional linear-assisted converter and a new structure named, LDO-assisted converter based on a new class-AB LDO regulator instead of the conventional linear one, in terms of efficiency, output ripple, and load transient response. The new structure reduces difference between input and output voltages and also switching frequency of the buck converter, corresponding to higher power efficiency, desired for power management systems of battery operated devices like biomedical implants and energy harvesting applications. A comparison analysis is done and the results are validated in HSPICE in a 0.18 µm CMOS process., Postprint (published version)

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This paper presents an output-capacitorless low dropout (LDO) regulator based on improved flipped voltage follower power stage for use in power management circuits. A new error amplifier (EA) structure, named as gain-bandwidth enhanced EA, is embedded in the LDO regulator. The LDO regulator is designed for the input and output voltages of 1.2 V and 1 V, respectively. Fast transients, low overshoot and undershoot, and low quiescent current of 6 µA are achieved for the proposed circuit. The LDO regulator is designed for maximum load current of 50 mA, achieving the current and power efficiencies of 99.99% and 83.3%, respectively. Additionally, up to 131 pF capacitance is used in the proposed LDO structure. The proposed circuit is designed and verified in HSPICE in TSMC 0.18 µm mixed signal CMOS process., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)

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Hybrid DC-DC regulators are structures that combine both a linear voltage regulator and a switching DC-DC converter. The main objective of this hybrid topology is to converge, in a single circuit topology, the best of both alternatives: a small voltage output ripple, which is a common characteristic of linear regulator circuits, and good energy efficiency, as in switching alternatives. While the linear regulator fixes the required output voltage to a fixed value with negligible steady-state ripple without the necessity of an output capacitor, the switching converter is devoted to drive most of the load current. In addition, the linear one supplies the required current when the load changes at transient intervals. Current paper deals with the design of an on-chip hybrid converter for low output currents. The design has been designed and tested with simulations using a standard 180 nm CMOS technology. The simulation results presented in the paper shows suitable performance of the design., Postprint (author's final draft)

Hybrid DC-DC regulators or linear–assisted DC-DC regulators are structures that combine both a linear voltage regulator and a switching DC-DC converter. The main objective of this hybrid topology is to converge, in a single circuit topology, the best of both alternatives: One the one hand, obtaining small voltage output ripple, which is typical of linear regulator structures, and, on the other, achieving good energy efficiency, as in switching alternatives. While the linear regulator fixes the required output voltage to a fixed value with negligible steady-state ripple without the necessity of an output capacitor, the switching converter is devoted to drive most of the load current. In addition, the linear one supplies the required current when the load changes at transient intervals. Current paper deals with the design of a hybrid regulator with constant switching frequency especially devoted to photovoltaic solar applications. The control loop of the system is based on the current–mode technique., Postprint (published version)

Buck converter; efficiency; LDO-assisted; linear-assisted; output ripple., Postprint (published version)

In this paper we show two different schemes to implement a field programmable circuit that can connect 'n' capacitors as a charge-pump of, eventually, any topology and switching pattern. Capacitor connectivity is configured by means of registers that control multiplexers that, in turn, select the phase signal that controls each switch. It is also shown that, with any of these schemes, dynamic configuration of the circuit may be achieved by simply adding additional control phases., Postprint (published version)

Linear-assisted DC/DC converters are structures that allow to take advantages of the two classic alternatives in the design of power supply systems: Voltage linear regulators (classic NPN topology or LDO –low dropout–) and switching DC/DC converters. This paper shows the proposal of a modified current-mode one-cycle control for linear-assisted DC/DC converters. The modified current-mode one-cycle control technique is proposed in order to obtain the duty cycle of the linear-assisted converter switch. The proposed structure can provide an output with suitable load and line regulations. The paper shows the design of the proposed modified current-mode one-cycle linear-assisted regulator and simulation results that validate the aforementioned proposal., Postprint (published version)

Continuous–time filters (CTFs) with automatic tuning loops are nonlinear feedback systems with potential instability. Thus, their appropriate linear dynamic modeling should be obtained to assure stability in case of an improved design of the loop controllers is to be carried out. A systematic approach using a small signal model would allow obtaining these controllers. However, bifurcations and nonlinear phenomena may appear which cannot be predicted by this analysis. This leads to potential instability, semiperiodic or chaotic behavior and, thus, circuit malfunction. The aim of this paper is to show by means of simulations and experimental results that nonlinear phenomena, which cannot be predicted by the common small signal analysis, may appear in this kind of circuits when circuit parameters are varied., Postprint (published version)

A low quiescent current output-capacitorless CMOS LDO regulator based on a high slew-rate current-mode transconductance amplifier (CTA) as an error amplifier is presented. Load transient characteristic of the proposed LDO is improved even at low quiescent currents, by using a local common-mode feedback (LCMFB) in the proposed CTA. This provides an increase in the order of transfer characteristic of the circuit, thereby enhancing the slew-rate at the gate of pass transistor. The proposed CTA-based LDO topology has been designed and post-layout simulated in HSPICE, in a 0.18 μm CMOS process to supply a load current between 0-100 mA. Postlayout simulation results reveal that the proposed LDO is stable without any internal compensation strategy and with on-chip output capacitor or lumped parasitic capacitances at the output node between 10-100 pF., Postprint (published version)

he appropriate linear dynamic modeling of continuous-time filters (CTFs) with automatic tuning loops should be obtained to assure stability in case an improved design of the loop controllers is to be carried out. With this aim, starting from a general and systematic analysis in order to obtain an equivalent small-signal linearized incremental model, from which transfer functions between output variables and control voltages are derived, the subsequent design of compensated loops with enhanced stability and dynamic performance is required. This systematic procedure allows obtaining improved controllers for the two involved control loops. However, CTFs with automatic tuning loops are nonlinear feedback systems with potential instability. What is more, nonlinear phenomena, which cannot be predicted by a design-oriented small signal modeling approach, are observed in this kind of tuning systems. The purpose of this work is to highlight that when control parameters are varied, the system could present different kinds of dynamical nonlinear phenomena such as bifurcations and chaotic behavior, which cannot be predicted by the small signal design-oriented model., Postprint (published version)

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This article shows the design of an on-chip CMOS linear-assisted DC-DC regulator. It results a good alternative topology to classic switching DC-DC power converters. In the presented technique, an auxiliary linear regulator is used to cancel the output voltage ripple and provides fast responses for load and line variations. On the other hand, a switching converter, connected in parallel, allows supplying almost the whole output current demanded by the load. The objective of this linear-assisted regulator or hybrid topology is to achieve a high efficiency of switching converters, with suitable load and line regulation features, typical of linear regulators. In this kind of on-chip applications, CMOS is the current prevailing technology. Thus, in order to implement on-chip power supply systems and on-chip power management systems with low to medium current consumption, this structure has good features., Postprint (published version)

This article shows the proposal of a current-mode one-cycle control for linear-assisted DC/DC converters. Linear-assisted DC/DC converters are structures that allow to take advantages of the two classic alternatives in the design of power supply systems: voltage linear regulators (classic NPN topology or LDO –low dropout–) and switching DC/DC converters. The current-mode onecycle control technique is proposed in order to obtain the duty cycle of the linear-assisted converter switch. The proposed structure can provide an output with suitable load and line regulations. Thus, the paper shows the design and simulation results of the proposed currentmode one-cycle linear-assisted converter., Postprint (published version)

This paper provides a classification of high efficiency switching power-gyrator structures and their use as cells for energy processing in photovoltaic solar facilities. Having into account the properties of these topologies presented in the article, their inclusion in solar facilities allows increasing the performance of the whole installation. Thus, the design, simulation and implementation of a G-type power gyrator are carried out throughout the text. In addition, in order to obtain the maximum power from the photovoltaic solar panel, a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is mandatory in the energy processing path. Therefore, the practical implementation carried out includes a control loop of the power gyrator in order to track the aforementioned maximum power point of the photovoltaic solar panel., Postprint (published version)

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) present a pending challenge for a complete deployability due to energy requirements. The Self-Powered WSN approach aims to extend the sensor node life by means of Energy Harvesting. The harvested energy presents an erratic behavior in both time and frequency. In this paper, a new concept of switch-mode electronically tunable band-pass filters is presented to adaptively follow the power source variations and to maximize the power transfer. To implement these switch-mode filters, three alternatives are presented. These filter topologies are modeled and evaluated. Additionally, some design guidelines are provided. The results show how these high efficiency topologies present a band-pass behavior whose center frequency can be electronically tuned over one decade. The results target the integration of these high-efficiency switch-mode band-pass filters into the future harvesting front-ends., Peer Reviewed, Postprint (published version)