SNYCHRONOUS

RECTIFICATION
Prepared by:1) Hardik Sonaiya
2) Ketan Gohil
Guidance by:Prof. Rakesh Patel

CONTENT
Introduction

of Fly Back

Converter
Introduction of Synchronous
rectification
High efficiency Fly Back
converter using synchronous
rectification
Advantage of synchronous
rectification
Conclusion

Flyback Converter
Flyback

converters are very commonly used

in applications at low power leveis below 50
W.
The Flyback converter in Fig.(1) consists of
two mutually-coupled coils, where the coil
orientations are such that at the instant when
the transistor is turned-off, the current
switches to the second coil to maintain the
same flux in the core.
Therefore, the dots on coils are as shown in
Fig. 8-2b where the current into the dot of
either coil produces core flux in the same
direction.

Circuit Diagram

Waveforms

Introduction of Synchronous
Rectification
In

flyback converter with

synchronous rectification
topology ,the primary side gate
signal has transfer to the
secondary side of transformer
with minimum delay .
By using synchronous
rectification technology is
implemented in a 15W ,3.3V@
4.5A DC-DC converter, with

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM

Waveform

Circuit Operation
In

figure (1) is represented the

simplified schematic key
waveforms for continuous mode
flyback with synchronous
rectification.
operation of synchronous
rectification in flyback converter
explain in four stage.

Stage
At

-1(t0 t1) :-

the moment of t0 , primary power

switch SW is turned off and magnetizing
current will flow into the secondary
winding , initially through the body
diode , Dsr of the synchronous rectifier .
During conduction time of the body diode
the voltage drop on the rectifier is large
and as result during this time interval
there is higher power dissipation .
One of the design goals is to minimize
the t0 - t1 time interval.

Stage
At

2 (t1 t2):-

the moment of t1 , the

synchronous rectifier is turned on
and voltage drop will decrease as
depicted by Vsr(t).
By design the voltage drop on the
synchronous rectifier has to be much
lower than the voltage drop on
Schottky rectifier.
During this time interval the power is
processed very efficiently.

Stage

2 (t2 t3): At moment t2 , synchronous rectifier

is turned off.
The secondary will continue to flow
through the body diode of SR.
During the conduction time of the
body diode the voltage drop on the
rectifier is larger and as a result the
is higher power dissipation .
One of the designs goals is to
minimize also the t2 t3 time interval.

Stage

2 (t3 t4): At the moment t3 , the power switch

is turned on.
Through the synchronous rectifier
has been turned off at t2, the current
continues to flow through the body
diode.
At the moment of t3 , when the
primary switch turns on there are still
carriers in the junction of body diode.

Advantages of synchronous
rectification
Eliminates

the need for an additional

magnetic element for information
transfer from primary to secondary ,
which translate in higher power
density and lower cost.
Improve the utilization of power
transformer by offering an additional
energy or (signal)transfer path
without interference with main
power processing path.

Using

the large cross section of the

power transformer, the leakage
inductance of the signal transfer
magnetic element is very low (due to
reduced number of turns) and as
result there is very low delay time
signal transfer.
The additional winding complexity in
transformer does not add additional
cost due to the use of multilayer PCB
implementation.

Conclusion
Overall

this method offers a

simple and low cost solution for
the implementation of flyback
topology with synchronous
rectification

REFERNCES
Ionel

Dan Jitaru ,High Efficiency

Flyback Converter using Synchronous
Rectification IEEE- 2012.
Pedro Alou, Jose A. Cobos, Member,
IEEE, Oscar Garca, Member, IEEE,
Roberto Prieto, Member, IEEE, and
Javier Uceda, Senior Member, IEEE A
New Driving Scheme for Synchronous
Rectifiers: Single Winding Self-Driven
Synchronous Rectification.IEEE-2011

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