Infineon Technologies Ag

Harald Gietler

Robert Priewasser

Andreas Berger

Christoph Unterrieder

Marc Kanzian

Stefano Marsili

In an example, a device for operating a switching converter is configured to determine a set of perturbed duty cycle values for a converter. A perturbation sequence is superimposed simultaneously onto a duty cycle value for each phase of the converter to form the set of perturbed duty cycle values. The device is further configured to determine an output voltage of the converter that occurs when the converter operates based on the set of perturbed duty cycle values, determine a coefficient vector of system parameters for the converter based on the output voltage and the set of perturbed duty cycle values, and tune a controller based on the coefficient vector. The duty cycle value for each phase of the converter is based on a respective command duty cycle value of a set of command duty cycle values output by the controller.

Controller tuning using perturbation sequence

In an example, a device for operating a switching converter is configured to receive a composite command duty cycle value. The device is further configured to generate an effective duty cycle value based on a voltage at a switching node. The device is further configured to generate a duty cycle mismatch value using the composite command duty cycle value and the effective duty cycle value so as to generate a plurality of duty cycle mismatch values. Each duty cycle mismatch value of the plurality of duty cycle mismatch values corresponds to a candidate natural frequency value of the converter. The device is further configured to output a candidate natural frequency value of the converter that corresponds to a maximum duty cycle mismatch of the plurality of duty cycle mismatch values.

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Harald Gietler