RESEARCH
Small Signal Analysis of V2 Control Using Current Mode Equivalent Circuit Model
The direct output voltage vo feedback consists of inductor current, capacitor voltage and load current feedback. Inductor current feedback loop does not have a low pass filter, so all the sideband frequencies (fsw-fm, fsw fm, etc.) are fed back to the modulator. Other feedbacks are simpler: for a voltage regulator, the impedance of the capacitor branch is much smaller than that of the load resistor at f>fsw/10. Assuming the capacitor ESR zero is well below half switching frequency, the impedance of ESR is much larger than that of the intrinsic capacitance, so the sideband components at vcap are overwhelmed by the ESR voltage.
According to the analysis above, it is reasonable to consider all the sideband frequency feedback effect in the inductor current loop, but only consider fundamental frequency in the capacitor voltage and load current feedback. The inductor current loop is a highly nonlinear entity. It potentially has sub-harmonic instability. A three-terminal switch equivalent circuit model based on the result that the describing function derivation accurately predicts the small signal properties of this nonlinear entity. Substitute the closed current loop and the PWM switch by the equivalent circuit mode, the proposed equivalent circuit model of V2 control is shown in Fig.1.