File:Buckboost resistance.svg

Summary

Summary

From original work of Cyril Buttay.

Evolution of the output voltage of a buck-boost converter with the duty cycle. This shows the influence of the parasitic resistances of the circuit on the performances.

This file has been generated using the following gnuplot (version 4.2, patchlevel 5) code, released under public licence.

# This file is used to plot the domains of continuous and
# discontinuous operation of a buck-boost converter

# graph configuration
set terminal svg enhanced
unset title
set line style 1 lt 1 lw 3 pt 0 ps 0
set line style 2 lt 3 lw 3 pt 0 ps 0
set line style 3 lt 2 lw 3 pt 0 ps 0
set mxtics 
set mytics 
set grid xtics ytics
set ylabel "Normalised Voltage"
set xlabel "Duty Cycle"
set format y '%0.1f'
set format x "%0.1f" 
set key left bottom

# normalized voltage for an ideal buck-boost converter
f(x) = x/(x-1)
# normalized voltage for a converter with a highly resistive inductor
g(x) = x/(x-1-1/(10*(1-x)))
# normalized voltage for a converter with a slightly resistive inductor
h(x) = x/(x-1-1/(100*(1-x)))

set output "buckboost_resistance.svg"

# the plot is set as parametric, so each curve is defined by two values: x,y
plot [0:1][-6:0] f(x) ls 2 title 'Ideal inductor (R{_L}=0)', 
                 h(x) ls 3 title 'Non-ideal inductor (R/R{_L}=100)',
                 g(x) ls 1 title 'Inductor no ideal (R/R{_L}=10)'

Licensing

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.