The average value of a dc–dc converter can be varied by varying the pulse width of the gating signal. This control technique is called pulse width modulation (PWM) and is presented in
Fig. 7.14.
Fig. 7.14(a) shows the control circuit of the PWM technique, and
Fig. 7.14(b) shows the definition of the PWM control technique. When the dc input voltage of the converter varies and/or there are voltage drops variations within the converter power circuit the pulse width of the gating signals varies so that the output voltage of the converter to remain constant. As shown in
Fig. 7.14(a), the output voltage value is fed to the error amplifier A
1 creating an error voltage ...