Santanu Kapat
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
India
Biography
Santanu Kapat is an Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur.
Research Interest
My research interests include Digital and Nonlinear Control of Switched Mode Power Converters, and applications to Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS)-enabled embedded processors, mutli-core processors, Envelope Tracking Power Aplifiers, LED Drivers, and Distributed DC Nanogrid. This include 48V-Direct-to-PoL applications, combined inductive and switched capacitor converters, PM Bus, active buffers, etc. My group extensively develops digital power management architectures. We have state-of-the-art hardware development and test facilities. All our ideas are prototyped using PCB and digital controllers are implemented using FPGA devices. We would like to take some of our designs to IC levels.
Publications
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Voltage-mode Digital Pulse Skipping Control of a DC-DC Converter with Stable Periodic Behavior and Improved Light-load Efficiency by Kapat S., Mandi B. , Patra A. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 31 3372-3379 (2016)
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Single-Inductor Multi-Output-Level Buck Converter for Reducing Voltage-Transition Time and Energy Overheads in Low Power DVS-Enabled Systems by Kapat S., Kumar I. IEEE Trans Power Electronics - (2017)
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Parameter-Insensitive Mixed-Signal Hysteresis-Band Current Control for Point-of-Load Converters with Fixed Frequency and Robust Stability by Kapat S. IEEE Trans Power Electronics 32 5760-5770 (2017)
