Design problem in compensated buck converter

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shahbaz khan

Joined Mar 10, 2011
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Hello Everyone!
I am working on practical design of Buck converter with PI Compensator. I want to step down a voltage range of 20-30Vdc to 10Vdc. My Circuit works fine in steady state region but there are some spikes generated at the switch on/off points and consequently output voltage also consists of these switching transients. I tried to apply RCD to the mosfet switch, TVS at load side, applied bypass capacitors at Vcc and Vss with op-amps (AD-712) but still having the same problem. Does anybody know the reason for this? Please help me...Thanks
 

crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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Large output spikes in a switching regulator are usually caused by poor layout and decoupling. For lowest noise you need a circuit board with a ground plane, with all devices decoupled directly to the ground, and the circuit laid out so the high switching currents have a short path. Here's a discussion of that.
 
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