Journal Papers (Published or Accepted)

  • [J. 28] M. S. Zaman, A. Michalak, M. Nasr, C.D. Silva, J. Mills, C.H. Amon, O. Trescases, "Multiphysics Optimization of Thermal-Management Designs for Power Electronics Employing Impingement Cooling and Stereolithographic Printing," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2021.3076532.
  • [J.27] M. Ashourloo, V. Raghuram Namburi, G. Villar-Pique, J. Pigott, HJ Bergveld, A. El-Sherif; O. Trescases, "Decentralized Quasi-Fixed-Frequency Control of Multiphase Interleaved Hybrid Dickson Converters for Fault-Tolerant Automotive Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 7653-7663, July 2020.
  • [J.26] M. Ashourloo, V. Raghuram Namburi, G. Villar-Pique; J. Pigott, HJ Bergveld, A. El-Sherif, O. Trescases, "Fault Detection in a Hybrid Dickson DC-DC Converter for 48-V Automotive Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 4254-4268, April 2021.
  • [J.25] Tayyara, O., Silva, C. D., Nasr, M., Assadi, A., Gupta, K., Trescases, O., and Amon, C. H. (June 4, 2020). "Electro-Thermal Codesign Methodology of an On-Board Electric Vehicle Charger." ASME. Journal of. Electronic Packaging, vol. 142, no. 4, 10 pages, December 2020.
  • [J.24] D. Galatro, C. D. Silva, D. A. Romero, O. Trescases, and C. H. Amon, “Challenges in data‐based degradation models for lithium‐ion batteries,” International Journal of Energy Research, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 3954-3975, April 2020.
  • [J.23] Z. Gong, B. A. C. van de Ven, K. M. Gupta ; Carlos da Silva, C. H. Amon, HJ Bergveld, M. C. F. Tijs Donkers, O. Trescases, "Distributed Control of Active Cell Balancing and Low-Voltage Bus Regulation in Electric Vehicles using Hierarchical Model-Predictive Control," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 10464-10473, Dec. 2020.
  • [J.22] S. A. Assadi, H. Matsumoto, M. Moshirvaziri, M. Nasr, M. S. Zaman and O. Trescases, "Active Saturation Mitigation in High-Density Dual-Active-Bridge DC–DC Converter for On-Board EV Charger Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 4376-4387, April 2020.
  • [J.21] N. A. Khan, H. Matsumoto and O. Trescases, "Wireless Electric Vehicle Charger with Electromagnetic Coil Based Position Correction using Impedance and Resonant Frequency Detection," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 7873-7883, Aug. 2020.
  • [J.20] I. Ahmed, S. Zhao, J. Meijers, O. Trescases, and V. Betz, “Froc 2.0: Automatic bram and logic testing to enable dynamic voltage scaling for fpga applications,” ACM Trans. Reconfigurable Technol. Syst., vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 20:1–20:28, Sep. 2019.
  • [J.19] S. Zhao, N. Khan, S. Nagarajan and O. Trescases, "Lithium-Ion-Capacitor-Based Distributed UPS Architecture for Reactive Power Mitigation and Phase Balancing in Datacenters," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 7381-7396, Aug. 2019.
  • [J.18] S. Zhao, I. Ahmed , V. Betz, A. Lotfi and O. Trescases," Frequency-Domain Power Delivery Network Self-Characterization in FPGAs for Improved System Reliability", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, accepted Jan 2018.
  • [J.17] S. Zhao, C. Lamoureux, I. Ahmed , V. Betz and O. Trescases," Robust Self-Calibrated Dynamic Voltage Scaling in FPGAs with Thermal and IR Drop Compensation", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, accepted Nov 2017. (download)
  • [J.16] I. Ahmed, S. Zhao, O. Trescases and V. Betz," Automatic Application-Specific Calibration to Enable Dynamic Voltage Scaling in FPGAs", IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design, accepted Oct 2017.
  • [J.15] S. Chung and O. Trescases," Hybrid Energy Storage System with Active Power-Mix Control in a Dual-Chemistry Battery Pack for Light Electric Vehicles", IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, accepted May 2017. (download)
  • [J.14] Y. Wen, M. Rose, R. Fernandes, R. V. Otten, H. J. Bergveld and O. Trescases, "Dual-Mode Driver IC with Monolithic Negative Gate Voltage Capability and Digital Current-Mode Controller for Depletion-Mode GaN HEMT", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 423-432, Jan. 2017. (download)
  • [J.13] A. D. Marzouk, O. Trescases, "SiC Based Bi-directional Cuk Converter with Differential Power Processing and MPPT for a Solar Powered Aircraft", IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 369-381, Jan. 2015. (download)
  • [J.12] R. Fernandes, O. Trescases, "A multimode 1-MHz PFC front end with digital peak current modulation", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 31, no. 8, pp. 5694-5708, Aug. 2016. (download)
  • [J.11] S. Poshtkouhi, O. Trescases, "Flyback Mode for Improved Low-Power Efficiency in the Dual Active Bridge Converter for Bi-directional PV Micro-Inverters with Integrated Storage", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 3316 - 3324, Jul. 2015. (download)
  • [J.10] Mohammad Shawkat Zaman, Yue Wen, Ryan Fernandes, Berry Butter, Toby Doorn, Marcel Dijkstra, Henk Jan Bergveld, O. Trescases, "A Cell-Level Differential Power Processing IC for Concentrating-PV Systems with Bi-directional Hysteretic Current-Mode Control and Closed-Loop Frequency Regulation", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.30, no.12, pp.7230-7244, Dec. 2015. (download)
  • [J.9] S. Zhao, X. Lu, O. Trescases, "Burst-mode LLC Converter for High Power LED Luminaire with Integrated into Light Communication for Smart Buildings", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 4392-4402, 2014. (download)
  • [J.8] Y. wen, and O. Trescases, "Analysis and Comparison of Frequency Stabilization Loops in Self-Oscillating Current Mode DC-DC Converters," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 4753-4766, Oct. 2013. (download)
  • [J.7] O. Laldin, M. Moshirvaziri and O. Trescases, "Predictive Algorithm for Optimizing Power Flow in Hybrid Ultracapacitor/Battery Storage Systems for Light Electric Vehicles," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 3882-3895, Oct. 2012. (download)
  • [J.6] Yue Wen and O. Trescases, "DC-DC converter with digital adaptive slope control in auxiliary phase for optimal transient response and improved efficiency," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 2296-3409, July. 2012. (download)
  • [J.5] S. Poshtkouhi, V. Palaniappan, M. Fard and O. Trescases, "A general approach for quantifying the benefit of distributed power electronics for fine grained MPPT in photovoltaic applications using 3D modeling," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 4656-4666, Nov. 2012. (download)
  • [J.4] O. Trescases, A. Prodic and W.T. Ng, “Digitally controlled peak current-mode DC-DC converter IC,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vo. 58, no. 1, pp. 219-231, 2011. (download)
  • [J.3] O. Trescases, G. Wei, A. Prodic, W.T. Ng, “Predictive Efficiency Optimization for DC-DC converters with highly dynamic digital loads,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 1859-1869, 2008. (download)
  • [J.2] O. Trescases, G. Wei, A. Prodic, W.T. Ng, “An EMI Reduction Technique for Digitally Controlled SMPS,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Letters, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1560-1565, 2007. (download)
  • [J.1] H. P. E. Xu, O. Trescases, I-S. M. Sun, D. Lee, W.T. Ng, K. Fukumoto, A. Ishikawa, Y. Furukawa, H. Imai, T. Naito, S. Tamura, K. Takasuka and T. Kohno, “Design of a rugged 60V VDMOS transistor,” Circuit, Devices & Systems, IET, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 327-331, October 2007. (download)


Other Conference Papers (Published or Accepted)

  • [C.89] O. Trescases, S. K. Murray, W. L. Jiang and M. S. Zaman, "GaN Power ICs: Reviewing Strengths, Gaps, and Future Directions," 2020 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2020, pp. 27.4.1-27.4.4
  • [C.88] W. L. Jiang, M.S. Zaman, H. De Vleeschouwer, J. Roig, P. Moens, O. Trescases., "GaN PMIC Opportunities: Characterization of Analog and Digital Building Blocks in a 650V GaN-on-Si Platform," 2020 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology, June 2020, pp. 1-2.
  • [C.87] M. Ashourloo, V.R. Namburi, G.V. Piqué, J. Pigott, H.J. Bergveld, A. E. Sherif, O. Trescases, "A Masterless Fault-Tolerant Hybrid Dickson Converter with 95.3% Peak Efficiency 20V-to-60V Input and 3.3V Output for 48V Multi-Phase Automotive Applications," 2021 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2021, pp. 258-260.
  • [C.86] M. S. Zaman, W.L. Jiang, S. Murray, H. De. Vleeschouwer, P. Moens, O. Trescases, "Integrated SenseHEMT and Gate-Driver on a 650-V GaN-on-Si Platform Demonstrated in a Bridgeless Totem-pole PFC Converter," 2020 32nd International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD), June 2020, pp. 26-29
  • [C.85] Z. Gong, K. Gupta, C. da Silva, C. Amon and O. Trescases, "Automatic Voltage Distortion Compensation for Improved State Estimation Accuracy in Battery Management Systems with Continuous Cell Balancing," 2020 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC), June 2020.
  • [C.84] Z. Gong, S. Chau and O. Trescases, "Quantifying the GHG Reduction versus Battery Size in Diesel Buses with Electrified HVAC," 2020 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC), June 2020, pp. 1215-1221.
  • [C.83] C. Lamoureux, Z. Gong, M. Nasr, S. A. Assadi, K. Gupta, D. Galatro, O. Tayyara, C. da Silva, C. Amon, and O. Trescases, “Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Based Power-Mix Control Strategy for Improved Lifetime Performance in Second-Life Battery Systems”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2020.
  • [C.82] V. Namburi, M. Ashourloo, and O. Trescases, “Fast Transient Response of GaN-Based Hybrid Dickson Converter using Quasi-Fixed-Frequency Control for 48-V-to-1-V Direct Conversion in Automotive Applications”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2020.
  • [C.81] Tayyara, Omri & Gupta, Kshitij & Silva, Carlos & Nasr, Miad & Assadi, Amir & Trescases, Olivier & Amon, Cristina. (2019). “Effects of Cooling Architecture and PCB Layout Co-Design on the Concurrent Thermal and Electrical Performance of an On-Board Electric Vehicle Charger.” 10.1115/IPACK2019-6434.
  • [C.80] M. Ashourloo et al., "Robust Fault Detection of Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Dickson Converter for Fault-Tolerant Automotive Applications," 2019 21st European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE '19 ECCE Europe), Genova, Italy, 2019, pp. P.1-P.10.
  • [C.79] N. Khan, H. Matsumoto and O. Trescases, "Non-uniform Spacing of Ferrite Bars for Optimizing a Solenoid-based Wireless Electric Vehicle Charger with Automatic Self-Alignment," 2019 21st European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE '19 ECCE Europe), Genova, Italy, 2019, pp. P.1-P.10.
  • [C.78] Z. Gong, C. Lamoureux, B.A.C. van de Ven, K. Gupta, D. Galatro, C.D. Silva, C.H. Amon and O. Trescases, "EV BMS with Distributed Switch Matrix for Active Balancing, Online Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, and Auxiliary Power Supply," 2019 21st European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE '19 ECCE Europe), Genova, Italy, 2019, pp. P.1-P.10.
  • doi: 10.23919/EPE.2019.8914958
  • [C.77] I. Ahmed, S. Zhao, J. Meijers, O. Trescases and V. Betz, "Automatic BRAM Testing for Robust Dynamic Voltage Scaling for FPGAs," 2018 28th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Dublin, 2018, pp. 68-687. doi: 10.1109/FPL.2018.00020
  • [C.76] H. Matsumoto, N. Khan and O. Trescases, "A 5kW Bi-directional Wireless Charger for Electric Vehicles with Electromagnetic Coil based Self-Alignment," 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 1508-1514.
  • [C.75] S. K. Murray, M. Nasr, M. Ashourloo and O. Trescases, "Masterless Interleaving Scheme for Parallel-Connected Inverters Operating with Variable Frequency Hysteretic Current-Mode Control," 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 277-283.
  • [C.74] D. Guirguis, M. Nasr, S. K. Murray, H. Matsumoto, O. Trescases and C. H. Amon, "Thermal Management Within Multi-Disciplinary System Design of a Rubik’s-Cube-sized 2kW Power Inverter," 2018 17th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), San Diego, CA, 2018, pp. 921-926. doi: 10.1109/ITHERM.2018.8419549
  • [C.73] K. Gupta, C.D. Silva, M. Nasr, A. Assadi, H. Matsumoto, C. Amon and O. Trescases, “Cooling Solutions for a High-Frequency, Bi-Directional, On-Board Electric Vehicle Power-Hub”, The Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM) 2018, pp.1-6.
  • [C.72] M. Ashourloo and O. Trescases, “Short-Circuit Fault Diagnosis and Post-Fault Control with Adaptive PLL-based Synchronization for a Multi-Phase Quasi-Square-Wave DC-DC Converter”, IEEE European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE/ECCE-Europe) 2018, pp. 1-10.
  • [C.71] A. S. Assadi, M. Nasr, H. Matsumoto, M. Moshirvaziri, M. Nasr, M. Zaman and O. Trescases, “Active Mitigation of Transformer Saturation in a Dual-Active-Bridge Converter for Electric Vehicle Chargers”, IEEE European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE/ECCE-Europe) 2018, pp. 1-10.
  • [C.70] M. Ashourloo, M. S. Zaman, and O. Trescases, “Opportunities for Leveraging Low-Voltage GaN Devices in Modular Multi-level Converters for Automotive Charging Applications”, IEEE International Power Electronics Conference (IPE-ECCE-Asia), May 2018, pp.1-6.
  • [C.69] Z. Gong, B.A.C Can de Ven, Y. Lu, Y. Luo, K. Gupta, C. Da Silva, H.J, Bergveld, and O. Trescases, “EV BMS with Time-Shared Isolated Converters for Active Balancing and Auxiliary Bus Regulation," IEEE International Power Electronics Conference (IPE-ECCE-Asia), May 2018, pp.1-8.
  • [C.68] M. Nasr and O. Trescases, “SiC Based, Four Quadrant, EV Battery Charger With Vehicle-to-Vehicle Power Transfer Capability”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2018 (accepted).
  • [C.67] Z. Gong, Z. Liu, Y. Wang, K. Gupta, C. da Silva, T. Liu, Z.H. Zheng, W.P. Zhang, J.P.M van Lammeren, H.J. Bergveld, C.H. Amon and O. Trescases, “IC for Online EIS in Automotive Batteries and Hybrid Architecture for High-Current Perturbation in Low-impedance Cells”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2018 (accepted).
  • [C.66] D. K. Li, M. Ashourloo, M. Rose, H. J. Bergveld and O. Trescases, “Fully-Integrated Switched-Capacitor Based Cold-Start Circuit for DC/DC Energy Harvesters with Wide Input/Output Voltage Range and Low Inductance in 40-nm CMOS Process”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2018 (accepted).
  • [C.65] I. Ahmed, S. Zhao, O. Trescases, V. Betz, “Find the Real Speed Limit: FPGA CAD for Chip-Specific Application Delay Measurement," 2017 27th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Belgium, 2017, pp. 1-8. (download)
  • [C.64] S. Nami, N. Khan, Y. Elgendi, J. Aziz, M. Nasr and O. Trescases, "Power architecture of a high-voltage dielectrophoresis-based contactless cleaning system for solar panels," 2017 IEEE 18th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Stanford, CA, 2017, pp. 1-7. (download)
  • [C.63] M. Nasr, S. Poshtkouhi, N. Radimov, C. Cojocaru and O. Trescases, “Fast Average Current Mode Control of Dual-Active-Bridge DC-DC Converter using Cycle-by-Cycle Sensing and Self-Calibrated Digita Feedforward”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2017, pp. 1-5. (download)
  • [C.62] S. Zhao, I. Ahmed, A. Khakpour, V. Betz, and O. Trescases (75 %), “A Robust Dynamic Voltage Scaling Scheme for FPGAs with IR Drop Compensation”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2017, pp. 1-6. (download)
  • [C.61] S. Chung and O. Trescases, “A DLL/PLL Based Multi-Phase Interleaved DC-DC Converter with Digital Off-time Control and Active Series Balancing for Electric Vehicles”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2017, pp. 1-6. (download)
  • [C.60] D. K. W. Li, Z. Gong, M. Rose, H.J. Bergveld and O. Trescases, “Improved Dynamics in DC-DC Converters for IoT Applications with Repetitive Load Profiles Using Self-Calibrated Preemptive Current Control”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2017, pp. 1-6. (download)
  • [C.59] I. Ahmed, S. Zhao, O. Trescases and V. Betz, "Measure twice and cut once: Robust dynamic voltage scaling for FPGAs," 2016 26th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Lausanne, 2016, pp. 1-11. (download)
  • [C.58] S. Poshtkouhi, M. Fard, I. Choi, R. Orr, C. Cojocaru, R. Amaya, O. Trescases, “A Dual-Active-Bridge DC-DC Converter IC in 0.18um, 80V BCD with Integrated High-Speed Digital Isolator and High-Precision Phase-Shift Control”, IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs, June 2016, pp. 243-246. (download)
  • [C.57] S. Chung and O. Trescases, “Hybrid lead-acid/lithium-ion energy storage system with power-mix control for light electric vehicles”, IEEE European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE/ECCE-Europe), Sept 2016, pp. 1-10. (download)
  • [C.56] M. Otsuka and O. Trescases, “Power management for self-powered SiC based AC smart-breaker for nano-grid applications”, IEEE European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE/ECCE-Europe), Sept 2016, pp. 1-8. (download)
  • [C.55] M. Otsuka and O. Trescases, “A two-chip quasi-resonant buck converter with a 700V power-stage and mixed-signal current-mode control”, IEEE workshop on modeling and control in power electronics (COMPEL), June 2016, pp. 1-6. (download)
  • [C.54] B. Bacque, T. Kirilova Gachovska, R. Orr, N. Radimov, D. K. Li, S. Poshtkouhi, O. Trescases, “Solving the last mile problem for energy self-forming nano-grids”, IEEE International Humanitarian Technologies Conference, May 2015, pp. 1-4. (download)
  • [C.53] D. Li, S. Poshtkouhi, and O. Trescases, “Intelligent AC distribution panel for real-time load analysis and control in small-scale power grids with distributed generation”, IEEE International Humanitarian Technologies Conference, May 2015, pp. 1-4. (download)
  • [C.52] S. Chung, M. Nasr, D. Guirguis, M. Otsuka, S. Poshtkouhi, D. K.W. Li, V. Palaniappan, D. Romero, C. Amon, R. Orr, O. Trescases, "Thermal and Electrical Co-Design of a Modular High-Density Single-Phase Inverter Using Wide-Bandgap Devices", IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), pp.1-6, 03-2016. (download)
  • [C.51] S. Poshtkouhi, M. Fard, O. Trescases, "On-Chip PLL-Based Methods for Synchronizing Active Switches Across the Isolation Boundary in DC-DC Converters", IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), pp.1-6, 03-2016. (download)
  • [C.50] S. Zhao, I. Ahmed, C. Lamoureux, A. Lofti, V. Betz, O. Trescases, "A Universal Self-Calibrating Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) Scheme with Thermal Compensation for Energy Savings in FPGAs", IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), pp.1-6, 03-2016. (download)
  • [C.49] M. Rose, Y. Wen, R. Fernandes, R.V. Otten, H.J. Bergveld, O. Trescases, “A GaN HEMT driver IC with programmable slew-rate and monolithic negative gate-drive supply and digital current-mode control”, IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices & ICs (ISPSD), May 2015, pp. 316-364. (download)
  • [C.48] S. Poshtkouhi, A. Eski, O. Trescases, "PLL based bridge synchronization as an alternative to digital isolators for dual active bridge dc-dc converters", IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2015, pp. 9-14. (download)
  • [C.47] S. Zhao, N. Khan, O. Trescases, "Server power management with integrated lithium-ion ultracapacitor and bi-directional dc-dc converter for distributed UPS and reactive power mitigation", IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2015, pp. 960-965. (download)
  • [C.46] L. Shao, M. Moshirvaziri, C. Malherbe, A. Moshirvaziri, A. Eski, S. Dallas, F. Hurzook, O. Trescases, "Ultracapacitor/battery hybrid energy storage system with real-time power-mix control validated experimentally in a custom electric vehicle", IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), March 2015, pp. 1331-1336. (download)
  • [C.45] A. Moshirvaziri, J. Liu, Y. Arumugam, O. Trescases, "Modelling of temperature dependent impedance in lithium ion polymer batteries and impact analysis on electric vehicles", IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), 2014, pp. 3149-3155. (download)
  • [C.44] M. S. Zaman, Y. Wen, R. Fernandes, B. Buter, T. Doorn, M. Dijkstra, H. J. Bergveld, O. Trescases, "A Cell-Level Power Management IC in BCD-SOI for Partial Power Processing in Concentrating-PV Systems", IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices & ICs (ISPSD), June 2014, pp.410-413. (download)
  • [C.43] S. Poshtkouhi, O. Trescases, "A Dual Active Bridge DC-DC Converter with Optimal DC-Link Voltage Scaling and Flyback Mode for Enhanced Low-Power Operation in Hybrid PV/Storage Systems", IEEE International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC), June 2014, pp. 2336-2342. (download)
  • [C.42] A. D. Marzouk, S. Fournier, O. Trescases, "Analysis of Partial Power Processing Distributed MPPT for a PV Powered Electric Aircraft", IEEE International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC), June 2014, pp. 3496-3502. (download)
  • [C.41] S. Poshtkouhi, H. Hussein, M. Varlan, O. Trescases, "Dual-Active-Bridge Based Bi-Directional Micro-Inverter with Integrated Short-Term Li-Ion Ultra-Capacitor Storage and Active Power Smoothing for Modular PV Systems", IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), 2014, pp.643-649. (download)
  • [C.40] M. Moshirvaziri, C. Malherbe, A. Moshirvaziri, O. Trescases, "Power-Mix Optimization for a Hybrid Ultracapacitor/Battery Pack in an Electric Vehicle using Real-time GPS Data,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), Oct. 2013, pp. 4666-4671. (download)
  • [C.39] Y. Wen, L. Shao, R. Fernandez, O. Trescases, “Current-mode bi-directional single-inductor three-port dc-dc converter for portable systems with PV power harvesting,” European Power Electronics Conference (EPE, ECCE-Europe), 2013, pp. 1-10. (download)
  • [C.38] S. Zhao, J. Xu, O. Trescases, "A dimmable LED driver for visible light communication (VLC) based on LLC resonant dc-dc converter operating in burst mode," IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), Long Beach, USA, March 2013, pp. 2144-2150. (download)
  • [C.37] J. Varley, M. Martino, S. Poshtkouhi, O. Trescases, "Battery and ultra-capacitor hybrid Energy storage system and Power Management Scheme for Solar-Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes", IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2012, pp. 4806-4811. (download)
  • [C.36] S. Zaman, S. Poshtkouhi, D. Li, H.J Bergveld, S. Myrskog, O. Trescases, "Low-cost power management architecture for a low-profile concentrating PV system,” International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (EPE-PEMC, ECCE-europe), Novi Sad, Serbia, Sept. 2012, pp. 1-8. (download)
  • [C.35] B. MacCleery, O. Trescases, M. Mujagic, O. Stepanov, "A new platform and methodology for system-level design of next-generation FPGA-based digital SMPS,” IEEE Energy Conversion Conference and Exposition (ECCE), Raleigh, USA, Sept. 2012, pp. 1599-1606. (download)
  • [C.34] S. Zhao, K. Cao, S. Firwana, A. Swaris, R. Content, O. Trescases, "Failsafe Smart LED Module with Thermal Management, String Current Balancing and Commutation for Lifetime Extension", IEEE Energy Conversion Conference and Exposition (ECCE), Raleigh, USA, Sept. 2012, pp. 4246-4253. (download)
  • [C.33] S. Poshtkouhi, A. Biswas, and O. Trescases, "DC-DC Converter for high granularity, sub-string MPPT in photovoltaic applications using a virtual parallel connection," IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, USA, Feb. 2012, pp. 86-92. (download)
  • [C.32] M. Moshirvaziri, C. Li and O. Trescases, "A quasi-resonant bi-directional tri-mode dc-dc converter with limited valley current," IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, USA, Feb. 2012, pp. 517-523. (download)
  • [C.31] O. Laldin, M. Moshirvaziri, O. Trescases, “Optimal power flow for hybrid ultracapacitor systems in light electric vehicles” IEEE Energy Conversion Conference and Exposition (ECCE), Pheonix, USA, Sept. 2011, pp. 2916-2922. (download)
  • [C.30] S. Zaman, K. Cao, O. Trescases, W.T. Ng, “H2-optimal thermal management for multi-phase current mode buck converters,” IEEE Energy Conversion Conference and Exposition (ECCE), Pheonix, USA, Sept. 2011, pp. 4187-4182. (download)
  • [C.29] O. Trescases, Y. Wen, "A survey of light-load efficiency improvement techniques for low-power dc-dc converters, "IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics (ICPE), Jeju, Korea, June 2011, pp.326-333. (download)
  • [C.28 J. Wang, W.T. Ng, O. Trescases, “Versatile capabilities of digitally controller integrated dc-dc converters,” IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2011, pp. 293-296. (download)
  • [C.27] S. Poshtkouhi and O. Trescases, "Multi-input single-inductor dc-dc converter for mppt in parallel-connected photovoltaic applications," IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Forth Worth, USA, 2011, pp. 41-47. (download)
  • [C.26] Y. Wen and O. Trescases, "DC-DC Converter with digital adaptive slope control in auxiliary phase to achieve optimal transient response," IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Forth Worth, USA, 2011, pp. 331-337. (download)
  • [C.25] A. Parayandeh, O. Trescases and A. Prodic, "10 MHz peak current mode dc-dc converter IC with calibrated current observer," IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Forth Worth, USA, 2011, pp. 897-903. (download)
  • [C.24] K. Cao, W.T. Ng and O. Trescases, "Thermal management for multi-phase current mode buck converters," IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Forth Worth, USA, 2011, pp. 1124-1129. (download)
  • [C.23] S. Poshtkouhi and O. Trescases, “Digital closed-loop EMI reduction in switched-mode power supplies using adaptive spread spectrum technique.” IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), USA, 2010, pp. 1-6. (download)
  • [C.22] Y. Wen and O. Trescases, “Closed-loop control of gate-charge recycling in a 20 MHz DC-DC converter.” in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), USA, 2010, pp. 1-7. (download)
  • [C.21] B. Tsai, O. Trescases and B. Francis, “An investigation of steady-state averaging for the single-inductor dual-output buck converter using Fourier analysis.” IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), USA, 2010, pp. 1-5. (download)
  • [C.20] Y. Wen and O. Trescases, "Non-linear control of current-mode buck converter with an optimally scaled auxiliary phase," IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Chile, 2010, pp. 783-788. (download)
  • [C.19] S. Poshtkouhi, J. Varley, R. Popuri and O. Trescases, "Analysis of distributed peak power tracking in photovoltaic systems," IEEE International Power Electronics Conference (IPE-ECCE-Asia), Japan, 2010, pp. 942-947. (download)
  • [C.18] A. Yoo, M. Chang, O. Trescases and W.T. Ng, “High-performance low-voltage power MOSFETs with hybrid waffle layout structure in a 0.25 um standard CMOS process,” Proc. International Symposium on Power Semiconductors and ICs (ISPSD), Orlando, USA, 2008, pp. 95-98. (download)
  • [C.17] O. Trescases, N. Rahman, A. Prodic, W.T. Ng, “A 1V buck converter IC with hybrid current-mode control and a charge-pump DAC,” IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC), Rhodos, Greece, 2008, pp. 1122-1129. (download)
  • [C.16] W.T. Ng, O. Trescases and G. Wei, “Output stages for integrated DC-DC converters and power ICs,” IEEE Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2007, pp. 91-94. (download)
  • [C.15] O. Trescases, A. Parayandeh, A. Prodic, W.T. Ng, “Sensorless digital peak current controller for low-power dc-dc smps based on a bi-directional delay line,” IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC), Orlando, Florida, 2007, pp. 1670-1676. (download)
  • [C.14] O. Trescases, G. Wei, A. Prodic, W. T. Ng, K. Takasuka, T. Sugimoto and H. Nishio, “A digital predictive on-line energy optimization scheme for DC-DC converters,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, USA, 2007, pp. 557-562. (download)
  • [C.13] A. Yoo, M. Chang, O. Trescases, H. Wang, W.T. Ng, "FOM (Figure of Merit) analysis for low voltage power MOSFETs in DC-DC converters," IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2007, pp. 1039-1042.
  • [C.12] H. Wang, O. Trescases, H.P.E. Xu, W.T. Ng, K. Fukumoto, A. Ishikawa, Y. Furukawa, H. Imai, T. Naito, N. Sato, K. Sakai, S. Tamura, K. Takasuka, "A 70 V UMOS Technology with trenched LOCOS process to reduce Cgs," IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductors and ICs (ISPSD), 2007, pp. 181-184. (download)
  • [C.11] H. Xu, O. Trescases, I-S. M. Sun, D. Lee, W. T. Ng, K. Fukumoto, A. Ishikawa, Y. Furukawa, H. Imai, T. Naito, N. Satio, K. Sakai, S. Tamura, K. Takasuka and T. Kohno, “Design of a rugged 60V VDMOS transistor,” IEEE International Seminar on Power Semiconductors (ISPS), Prague, Czech Republic, 2006, pp. 253-257. (download)
  • [C.10] O. Trescases, G. Wei and W.T. Ng, “A Low-power dc-dc converter with digital spread spectrum for reduced EMI,” IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC), Jeju, Korea, 2006, pp. 3108-3114. (download)
  • [C.9] O. Trescases, W.T. Ng, Nishio, H., Masaharum E. and Kawashima, T., “A digitally controlled dc-dc converter module with a segmented output stage for optimized efficiency,” IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductors and ICs (ISPSD), Naples, Italy, 2006, pp. 409-413. (download)
  • [C.8] O. Trescases, Z. Lukic, W.T. Ng and A. Prodic, “A low-power mixed-signal current-mode dc-dc converter using a one-bit delta-sigma DAC,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), Dallas, USA, 2006, pp. 1-6. (download)
  • [C.7] T. Armstrong, O. Trescases, C. Amza and E. de Lara, “Efficient and transparent dynamic content updates for mobile clients,” International conference on mobile systems, applications, and services, 2006. (download)
  • [C.6] O. Trescases, G. Wei and W.T. Ng, “Segmented digital pulse width modulator with self-calibration for low-power SMPS,” IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), Hong Kong, China, 2005, pp. 367-37. (download)
  • [C.5] G. Wei, O. Trescases and W.T. Ng, “A dynamic voltage scaling controller for maximum energy saving across full range of load conditions,” IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), Hong Kong, China, 2005, pp. 371-37. (download)
  • [C.4] O. Trescases, and W.T. Ng, “Variable output, soft-switching dc/dc Converter for VLSI Dynamic Voltage Scaling Power Supply Applications,” in IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC), Aachen, Germany, 2004, pp. 4149-4155. (download)
  • [C.3] O. Trescases, W.T. Ng, “Power management for modern VLSI loads using dynamic voltage scaling,” IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuits Technology, Beijing, China, 2004, pp. 1412-1415. (download)
  • [C.2] O. Trescases, W.T. Ng and S. Chen, “Precision gate drive timing in a zero-voltage-switching DC-DC converter,” IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductors and ICs (ISPSD), Kitakyushu, Japan, 2004, pp. 55-58. (download)
  • [C.1] S. Chen, O. Trescases, and W.T Ng, “Fast dead-time locked loops for a high-efficiency microprocessor-load ZVS-QSW DC/DC converter,” IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), Hong Kong, China, 2003, pp. 391-394. (download)


Theses


  • [T.3] O. Trescases, “Integrated power supplies for portable applications,”Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto Press, pp. 1-235, 2007.
  • [T.2] O. Trescases, “A high-frequency, soft-switching dc-dc converter for dynamic voltage scaling in VLSI loads,” M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto Press, pp. 1-128, 2004.
  • [T.1] O. Trescases, “Smart motor controller for an e-bike application” B.A.Sc. thesis, University of Toronto, pp. 2002.


Patents:

  • [P. 12] O. Trescases, J. Strydom, R. Mukhopadhyay, “Methods and Circuitry for Driving a Device”, U.S Patent application, Texas Instruments, filed 2016, pending.
  • [P. 11] O. Trescases, J. Strydom, R. Mukhopadhyay, “Methods and Circuitry for Analyzing Voltages”, U.S Patent application, Texas Instruments, filed 2016, pending.
  • [P. 10] O. Trescases, J. Strydom, R. Mukhopadhyay, “Methods and Circuitry for Sampling a Signal”, U.S Patent application, Texas Instruments, filed 2016, pending.
  • [P. 9] D. K. Li, O. Trescases, M. Rose, H.J. Bergveld, “DC-DC Converter Controller”, U.S Patent application, filed 2016, pending.
  • [P. 8] A. D. Marzouk, O. Trescases, “Four-Quadrant Buck-Boost Partial Power Processing Converter For Photovoltaic Applications”, U.S Patent application, filed May. 2015, pending.
  • [P. 7] S. Poshtkouhi, O. Trescases, Ray Orr, Ben Baques, “Switching synchronization for isolated topologies”, U.S Patent. application, filed May 2014 (provisional), pending.
  • [P. 6] S. Poshtkouhi, O. Trescases, “Dual-Active-Bridge with Flyback Mode”, U.S Patent application US20150109827 A1, filed Oct., 2014, granted 2017.
  • [P. 5] O. Trescases, S. Poshtkouhi, “Stabilized power generation”, U.S Patent application EP20140177357, filed July. 2014, pending.
  • [P.4] R. Content, O. Trescases, S. Zhao, K. Cao,”Failsafe smart lighting module with thermal management, string current balancing and regulated commutation," U.S Patent filed Sept. 2012, pending.
  • [P.3] O. Trescases, D. Bernardon, “Diode loss detection for low side MOSFET of a synchronous ouput stage”, U.S Patent #7969694, filed Aug. 8 2008, issued Jun 2011 (download).
  • [P.2] O. Trescases, “Analog to digital converter architecture”, U.S Patent # 776124 B2, filed Dec. 2, 2008, issued July 20, 2010. (download)
  • [P.1] O. Trescases, W.T. Ng, “Circuit and method for reducing electromagnetic interference”, U.S Patent # 7342528 B2, filed June 2006, issued March 2008. (download)