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Pulse-frequency modulation
About: Pulse-frequency modulation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4151 publications have been published within this topic receiving 53039 citations. The topic is also known as: PFM.
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05 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this article, a method for controlling a switching power converter provides an efficient algorithm for controlling the output voltage across loads that are relatively light with small transients, which is useful with synchronous or non-synchronous power converters of buck, boost, buck/boost or other topologies.
Abstract: A method for controlling a switching power converter provides an efficient algorithm for controlling the output voltage across loads that are relatively light with small transients. When the output voltage is at or below a predetermined first magnitude, a determination is made of the charge required for one or more pulses to increase the output voltage to a predetermined second magnitude which is greater than a target output voltage. Corrective action is taken to raise the output voltage to the second magnitude and the system takes no further corrective action until output voltage is determined to be at or below the first magnitude. The method is useful with synchronous or non-synchronous power converters of buck, boost, buck/boost or other topologies. The method further provides a simple means for determining the amount of charge removed from a battery.
87 citations
TL;DR: The development of a high-frequency PWM generator architecture for power converter control using FPGA and CPLD ICs and results are presented for low cost functional verification of the proposed architecture.
87 citations
23 Feb 1997
TL;DR: A generalized discontinuous pulse width modulation (GDPWM) method with superior high modulation operating range performance characteristics is developed and is suitable for most high performance PWM-VSI drive applications.
Abstract: In this paper a generalized discontinuous pulse width modulation (GDPWM) method with superior high modulation operating range performance characteristics is developed. An algorithm which employs the conventional space vector PWM method in the low modulation range, and the GDPWM method in the high modulation range is established. As a result, the current waveform quality, switching losses, voltage linearity range and the overmodulation region voltage gain of a PWM-VSI drive are optimized online as opposed to conventional modulators with fixed characteristics. Due to its compactness, simplicity and superior performance, the algorithm is suitable for most high performance PWM-VSI drive applications. The paper provides a detailed performance analysis of the method and compares it to the other methods. Experimental results verify the superiority or this algorithm to conventional PWM methods.
87 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a continuous, discontinuous pulsewidth modulation (PWM) scheme and a novel space vector modulation methodology for four-leg dc-ac inverters.
Abstract: The continuous, discontinuous pulse-width modulation (PWM) schemes and a novel space vector modulation methodology are proposed in this paper for four-leg dc-ac inverters. Using a space vector definition that includes the zero sequence voltage component and partitioning the feasible sixteen modes into two separate sets - one set having zero sequence voltages with positive magnitudes and the other set with negative magnitudes - the novel space vector implementation technique is determined as also the discontinuous carrier based PWM scheme. For the continuous carrier based PWM scheme, the indeterminate defining output voltage equations expressed in terms of the existence functions of the switching devices are solved using an optimization technique. The modulation schemes determined are shown by experimental results to synthesis any desirable balanced or unbalanced three-phase voltage sets when operating in the linear modulation region.
86 citations
TL;DR: The overall pattern of the results could be predicted reasonably well using a multichannel excitation pattern model based on the assumption that listeners use an unweighted sum of decision variables across all suprathreshold channels with a positive signal-to-noise ratio.
Abstract: This article is concerned with the mechanisms underlying the detection of amplitude modulation (AM), frequency modulation (FM), and mixed modulation (MM), i.e., simultaneously occurring AM and FM. In a previous study [B. C. J. Moore and A. Sek, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 92, 3119–3131 (1992)], psychometric functions were measured for the detection of AM alone and FM alone, using a 10‐Hz modulation rate and a 1‐kHz carrier frequency. Detectability was then measured for combined AM and FM, with modulation depths selected so that each type of modulation would be equally detectable if presented alone. The detectability of the combined AM and FM was better than would be predicted if the two types of modulation were coded completely independently. Significant effects of relative modulator phase were found when detectability was relatively high, but these effects were not correctly predicted by either of two excitation‐pattern models considered. The first experiment reported here was similar to the earlier experiment, ...
85 citations