Circuit World: Volume 48 Issue 4

An analytic method for parameter extraction of InP HBTs small-signal model

Jincan Zhang, Min Liu, Jinchan Wang, Kun Xu

High-speed Indium Phosphide (InP) HBTs have been widely used to design high-speed analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The purpose of this study is to propose a…

Study on high temperature model based on the n-Channel planar 4H-SiC MOSFET

Zhenyu Tang, Xiaoyan Tang, Shi Pu, Yimeng Zhang, Hang Zhang, Yuming Zhang, Song Bo

To use the 4H-SiC material in integrated circuits for high temperature application, an accurate and simple circuit model of n-channel planar 4H-SiC MOSFET is required.

Performance investigation of doubly salient outer rotor switched reluctance motor using finite element analysis

Saravanan Sivasamy, M. Marsaline Beno Maria, Prabhu Sundaramoorthy

The automotive industry extensively uses switched reluctance motors (SRM) because of their excellent performance. The main purpose of this article is to investigate the design of…

Cumulative degradation methodology to predict reliability of electronic systems

George Thiel, Flavio Griggio, Sanjay Tiku

The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel methodology for predicting reliability for consumer electronics or any other hardware systems that experience a complex lifecycle…

Performance enhancement of switched reluctance motor drive using front-end converter

Indira Damarla, Venmathi Mahendran

The main purpose of this paper is to propose a quasi-impedance source (QIS) converter fed switched reluctance motor (SRM) drive. The proposed converter topology is configured for…

Edge scattering limited crosstalk analysis in adjacent multilayer graphene interconnects and its impact on gate oxide reliability

Ramneek Sidhu, Mayank Kumar Rai

This paper aims to present the edge scattering dominant circuit modeling. The effect of crosstalk on gate oxide reliability (GOR), along with the mitigation using shielding…

A novel design of nano router with high-speed crossbar scheduler for digital systems in QCA paradigm

Kalpana Kasilingam, Paulchamy Balaiah

The nano-router would be a mastery device for providing high-speed data delivery. Here nano-router with a space-efficient crossbar scheduler is used for making absolutely less…

Systematic design of multi-objective enhanced genetic algorithm optimized fractional order PID controller for sensorless brushless DC motor drive

Vanchinathan Kumarasamy, Valluvan KarumanchettyThottam Ramasamy, Gnanavel Chinnaraj

The puspose of this paper, a novel systematic design of fractional order proportional integral derivative (FOPID) controller-based speed control of sensorless brushless DC (BLDC…

A modified model of conductor roughness for manufacturing copper lines of printedcircuit board

Chong Wang, Yingjie Wang, Kegu Adi, Yunzhong Huang, Yuanming Chen, Shouxu Wang, Wei He, Yao Tang, Yukai Sun, Weihua Zhang, Chenggang Xu, Xuemei He

The purpose of this paper is to establish an accurate model to quantify the effect of conductor roughness on insertion loss (IL) and provide improved measurements and suggestions…

Wideband circularly polarized antenna with metallic walls for L-band applications

Mohammad Pourbagher, Changiz Ghobadi, Javad Nourinia, Rahim Naderali

To achieve right-hand circular polarization (RHCP), a 3-dB Wilkinson power divider with a λ/4 phase shifter is used. The crossed-dipoles are placed at almost λ/4 elevation on the…

Electronically tunable mixed mode universal filter employing grounded capacitors utilizing highly versatile VD-DVCC

Mohammad Faseehuddin, Norbert Herencsar, Musa Ali Albrni, Sadia Shireen, Jahariah Sampe

A comprehensive study on various dc–dc converter voltage-boosting topologies and their applications

Sumathy P., Navamani Divya, Jagabar Sathik, Lavanya A., Vijayakumar K., Dhafer Almakhles

This paper aims to review comprehensively the different voltage-boosting techniques and classifies according to their voltage gain, stress on the semiconductor devices, count of…

Multilayer DS-MAC with game theory optimization

Radha S., G. Josemin Bala, Nagabushanam P.

Energy is the major concern in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for most of the applications. There exist many factors for higher energy consumption in WSNs. The purpose of this…

A novel multi-input DC-DC landsman converter for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles

Antony Freeda Rani Maria Lucas, Subbulekshmi Durairaj

The purpose of the paper is to develop high accurate and unified maximum power point tracking technique that tracks the maximum power from both the photovoltaic (PV) array and…

A compact, broadband three-way substrate integrated waveguide power divider with improved isolation

Arun Kumar Gande, Souma Guha Mallick, Bijit Biswas, Sayan Chatterjee, Dipak Ranjan Poddar

This paper aims to present a compact, broadband substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) three-way power divider with improved isolation based on six-port SIW coupler.

A half-bridge IGBT drive and protection circuit in dielectric barrier discharge power supply

Xingquan Wang, Xiuyuan Lu, Wei Chen, Fengpeng Wang, Jun Huang, Lingli Liu, Mengchao Li, Kui Lin

This paper aims to improve the general circuit of driving and protection based on insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) in dielectric barrier discharge power supply by…

An ultra-low noise pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (pHEMT)-based low noise amplifier using low temperature co-fire ceramic (LTCC) technique

Subburaman Bhuvaneshwari, Sundharajan Kanthamani

This study aims to present two stage pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor-based low noise amplifier (LNA) designed using low temperature co-fire ceramic (LTCC…