ECE 734 Power Management Integrated Circuits

3 Credit Hours

Review of modern power management converters and circuits; Review modeling and control of converters; Detail discussion of voltage and current mode controllers; Understanding of power converter losses and optimization method, as well as management of power; Integrated circuit design of various power management chips.

Prerequisite

Analog Electronics (NC State ECE 511)

Recommended: Power Electronics (NC State ECE 534)

Course Objectives

1. Review of modern power management converters and circuits;
2. Modeling and control of converters;
3. Detail discussion of voltage and current mode controllers;
4. Understanding of power converter losses and optimization method, as well as management of power;
5. IC implementation of power management chip

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course you will be able to

• Design a power management voltage and current mode controller circuit
• Design an integrated power stage
• Design supervisory circuitry – undervoltage lockout, bandgap references
• Design of a complete power management integrated circuit

Course Requirements

Lectures	Weekly
Homework assignments (5)	50%
Team final project – a full IC design	50%

Textbooks

Recommended but not required to purchase:

• Power Electronics
  • Erickson, “Fundamentals of Power Electronics”
• Power Devices:
  • D. A. Grant, and J. Gowar, Power MOSFETs theory and applications, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1989.
• IC and Power ICs
  • Behazad Razavi, ” Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits”
  • David A. Johns and Ken Martin, ” Analog Integrated Circuit Design”
  • Gray and Meyer, ” Analog Integrated Circuits”, 3rd or 4th editions

Computer and Software Requirements

We will use Cadence in this class. NCSU has full software. Nothing is needed by student.

Created 10/14/2020