Dalian Maritime University, China It is my honor to be the editor-in-chief of IJEETC. The journal publishes good papers which focus on the advanced researches in the field of electrical and electronic engineering & telecommunications.
2024-03-15
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2024-02-02
Abstract—Charging and discharging waveforms in an RC circuit are changed exponentially. The change gradually decreases over time and approaches a steady-state value, since the power of the exponential is negative. However, depending on applications, a diverging signal may be required. In this case, the power of the exponential is positive, and the signal gradually increases over time. In this paper, a clock generator is proposed whose frequency is increased exponentially over time. The proposed circuit can generate exponentially increasing voltage and clock signals with high accuracy over a wide operating range by using Switched-Capacitor (SC) technique. The generated voltage and the clock frequency are derived theoretically. Moreover, the design formulas for finding the circuit parameters with the initial value and the final value are also derived. The theoretical analysis of the proposed circuit is confirmed by experiments and SPICE simulations. From the experiments and the simulations, the clock frequency and the voltage are changed exponentially 1 kHz ~ 20 kHz and 0.4 V ~ 7.9 V, respectively. As an application, the Cockcroft-Walton circuit is driven by the proposed clock generator.