Power integration for solar applications

Power integration in power electronic circuits is important for new circuit designs since it tends to decrease the bill of materials, cost, and size of an application, with the added benefit of an increase in reliability. A functional description of a novel architecture called a Micro-Inverter Contr...

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Published in2016 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Gachovska, Tanya K., Lipan, Tudor, Scarlatescu, Gabriel, Gerolami, Chris, Radimov, Nikolay, Varlan, Mihai
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2016
Subjects
Engines
Integrated circuits
Inverters
Sensors
Switches
Timing
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Summary:Power integration in power electronic circuits is important for new circuit designs since it tends to decrease the bill of materials, cost, and size of an application, with the added benefit of an increase in reliability. A functional description of a novel architecture called a Micro-Inverter Controller (IXC64) integrated circuit is discussed. The IXC64 has a 32-bit RISC microcontroller core with 64 kB of RAM, as well as advanced switching timers and sensing features for control of different topologies for solar applications. These topologies may include stages such as an Active Clamp Forward converter, Buck converter, Unfolding Bridge, Dual Buck converter, Double Anti-phase Buck converter, Chopper, and Current-fed Push-pull converter. Characterized test results and results of applications using the IXC64 is presented.
DOI:10.1109/EPEC.2016.7771684