The design and test of a micropower signal conditioning circuit for a piezoresistive accelerometer is presented. The circuit is intended for sensing human body motion in rateadaptive cardiac pacemakers. A strategy is proposed to allow to handle the piezoresistive sensor with the desired level of consumption. Experimental results show the fabricated circuit is able to measure accelerations in the range from 0.04g to 0.34g with a total consumption of less than 3mA with supply voltages down to 2V.
This paper presenst CISSOID's new high temperature chips for Power Management and Motor Control in automotive, oil & gas, aerospace and industrial applications.
High temperature DC-DC reference designs, called respectively ETNA, VESUVIO™ and EREBUS™, have been announced recently. These Buck (step-down) DC-DC converters are built with proven CISSOID products as active components rated from −55°C up to 225°C. These DC-DC converters can have input voltages from 6V up to 50V. The output voltage can be adjusted from 10% up to 90% of the input voltage. Power efficiencies in excess of 90% above 200°C have been demonstrated. VESUVIO™ and EREBUS™ are based on MAGMA PWM controller, HYPERION half-bridge driver and two power transistors to implement a synchronous Buck converter.
For high voltage and power levels, new Silicon-Carbide devices allow operating at high junction temperatures. They enable high power modules with higher densities in terms of size and weight. Having power drivers able to operate very close to these devices allow further integration of power modules while increasing the performances thanks to lower parasitic capacitances and inductances. This will also ease to increase switching frequencies, another key advantage of these new devices. For these applications, CISSOID has released PROMETHEUS I Power Driver reference design that can sink and source currents up to 2Amps at a supply voltage from 11V up to 30V. Recently announced PROMETHEUS II design, based on HYPERION driver, enables rise and fall times of 25ns on a 1nF load.
In this paper we present the operation of the XTR30011 device, a high-temperature, versatile, PWM controller with in-specification performance achieved from −60°C to 230°C using a CMOS SOI process. The circuit features a voltage-mode PWM controller that can be used in Buck-mode converters as well as in Boost, Buck-boost, Push-pull and Flyback. Several functional features are implemented including duty-cycle limitation allowing cycle-by-cycle current limitation, hiccup short-circuit protection and complex functionalities for improved efficiency at low load currents.
These advanced features for improved efficiency include automatic synchronous-asynchronous mode transition in Buck-mode, pulse skipping logic with adjustable threshold, low-power mode with capability to receiving the 5V converter output voltage.
Efficiency in DC-DC converters operated at low load currents is dominated by switching as well as intrinsic consumption losses. The XTR3011, in addition to having a low intrinsic current consumption, allows reaching very good efficiencies at low load currents thanks to its functional features.
We present here the operation of several functional features and experimental results across temperature of the efficiency in several configuration modes, and in particular for low load currents.
We present in this paper two new products for high-temperature, low-voltage (2.8V to 5.5V) power management applications. The first product is an original implementation of a monolithic low dropout regulator (XTR70010), able to deliver up to 1A at 230°C with less than 1V of dropout. This new voltage regulator can source an output current level up to 1.5A. The regulated output voltage can be selected among 32 preset values from 0.5V to 3.6V in steps of 100mV, or it can be obtained with a pair of external resistors. The circuit integrates complex analog and digital control blocks providing state of the art features such as UVLO protection, chip enable control, soft start-up and soft shut-down, hiccup short-circuit protection, customer selectable thermal shut-down, input power supply protection, output overshoot remover and stability over an extremely wide range of load capacitances. The circuit offers a fair ±2% absolute accuracy and is guaranteed latch-up free.
The second product is an advanced high-temperature, low-power, digitally trimmable voltage reference (XTR75020). Thanks to a custom, 1-wire serial interface, the absolute precision and the temperature coefficient can be adjusted in order to obtain an accuracy better than 0.5% with a temperature coefficient bellow ±20ppm/°C. On-chip OTP memory for trimming of absolute value and temperature coefficient makes the circuit extremely accurate and almost insensitive to drifts over time and temperature. The circuit features a class AB output buffer able to source or sink up to 5mA and remains stable with any load capacitance up to 50μF. The XTR75020 has nine preset possible output voltages. The source and sink short circuit current always remains bellow 25mA. The quiescent current consumption is 300μA typical at 230°C while the standby current is, in all cases, under 20μA.
Both devices are designed on a latch-up free silicon-on-insulator process.
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