A Current-Sensing Circuit for DC-DC Converters With Bootstrap Characteristics

作者:Zhang Yu*; Zheng Feng; Wang Peikang; Qiao Yanpeng; Yang Xiaoyu; Wang Junfei
来源:IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2014, 61(8): 4183-4192.
DOI:10.1109/TIE.2013.2286557

摘要

Current sensing in dc-dc converters is critical for protection and operation purposes of the system. This paper proposes a novel lossless current-sensing technique based on the matching complementary filter topology whose main idea is to transform the current signal to voltage signal. This new technique introduces a thermal compensation block to improve its accuracy, an error elimination block to solve the problem of its floating output voltage, and a bootstrap block to allow this technique to be applied in high-voltage systems. Finally, some experimental results of this novel technique for dc-dc converters are presented, and applications on synchronous rectification are analyzed.