Freescale Semiconductor M68HC08 Light Ballast Control, Power Factor Correction, Control Board

Models: M68HC08

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CONTROL BOARD

Application Description

MAINS

FILTER

ZERO CROSSING

CONTROL BOARD

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USER INTERFACE

RECTIFIER

VOLTAGE

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DC

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DC-BUS

PFC

DRIVER

POWER

SUPPLY

 

PWM

ACTUAL CURRENT

 

FILTER

 

PWM

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GENERATION

 

HALF BRIDGE

DRIVER

PWM

HIGH

RESOLUTION

PWM

RESONANT

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VOLTAGE

CURRENT

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Figure 3-1. Dimmable Light Ballast — System Concept

3.3.1 Light Ballast Control

The HRP provides two complementary PWM outputs for controlling a half-bridge in a light ballast application. It uses a dithering control method to provide a high step resolution (3.9 ns) from an 8 MHz input clock when driving inductive loads.

The High Resolution PWM Module (HRP) uses a dithering technique to increase the resolution of the output signal.The output switches between two frequencies or duty cycles at a programmable rate. By varying the percentage of time spent on each frequency/duty cycle, the output will appear to be at a value between the two dithering frequencies/duty cycles when driving an inductive load.

The advantage is easy implementation of a control method for half-bridge inverter using few external devices. The main advantage is simple performance using few instructions to perform the dithering control algorithm.

3.3.2 Power Factor Correction

The power factor correction circuitry provides the “sinusoidal” input current by controlling the PFC switch. In the control loop, the actual DC-bus voltage is compared with the desired one. The control error is processed by the PI (proportional-integral) controller, which generates the amplitude of the input “sinusoidal” current. The PWM generator generates the desired sinusoidal current profile using a PWM technique. The digital output signal is filtered by a passive filter and the resulting analog waveform is compared with the actual input current by an on-chip comparator. The comparator output controls directly

Dimmable Light Ballast with Power Factor Correction, Rev. 1

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Freescale Semiconductor M68HC08 manual Light Ballast Control, Power Factor Correction, Control Board, MC68HC908LB8