115 research outputs found
High Performance Low Voltage Power Mosfet For High-frequency Synchronous Buck Converters
Power management solutions such as voltage regulator (VR) mandate DC-DC converters with high power density, high switching frequency and high efficiency to meet the needs of future computers and telecom equipment. The trend towards DC-DC converters with higher switching frequency presents significant challenges to power MOSFET technology. Optimization of the MOSFETs plays an important role in improving low-voltage DC-DC converter performance. This dissertation focuses on developing and optimizing high performance low voltage power MOSFETs for high frequency applications. With an inherently large gate charge, the trench MOSFET suffers significant switching power losses and cannot continue to provide sufficient performance in high frequency applications. Moreover, the influence of parasitic impedance introduced by device packaging and PCB assembly in board level power supply designs becomes more pronounced as the output voltage continues to decrease and the nominal current continues to increase. This eventually raises the need for highly integrated solutions such as power supply in package (PSiP) or on chip (PSoC). However, it is often more desirable in some PSiP architectures to reverse the source/drain electrodes from electrical and/or thermal point of view. In this dissertation, a stacked-die Power Block PSiP architecture is first introduced to enable DC-DC buck converters with a current rating up to 40 A and a switching frequency in the MHz range. New high- and low-side NexFETs are specially designed and optimized for the new PSiP architecture to maximize its efficiency and power density. In particular, a new NexFET structure with iv its source electrode on the bottom side of the die (source-down) is designed to enable the innovative stacked-die PSiP technology with significantly reduced parasitic inductance and package footprint. It is also observed that in synchronous buck converter very fast switching of power MOSFETs sometimes leads to high voltage oscillations at the phase node of the buck converter, which may introduce additional power loss and cause EMI related problems and undesirable electrical stress to the power MOSFET. At the same time, the synchronous MOSFET plays an important role in determining the performance of the synchronous buck converter. The reverse recovery of its body diode and the Cdv/dt induced false trigger-on are two major mechanisms that impact the performance of the SyncFET. This dissertation introduces a new approach to effectively overcome the aforementioned challenges associated with the state-of-art technology. The threshold voltage of the low-side NexFET is intentionally reduced to minimize the conduction and body diode related power losses. Meanwhile, a monolithically integrated gate voltage pull-down circuitry is proposed to overcome the possible Cdv/dt induced turn-on issue inadvertently induced by the low VTH SynFET. Through extensive modeling and simulation, all these innovative concepts are integrated together in a power module and fabricated with a 0.35µm process. With all these novel device technology improvements, the new power module delivers a significant improvement in efficiency and offers an excellent solution for future high frequency, high current density DC-DC converters. Megahertz operation of a Power v Block incorporating these new device techniques is demonstrated with an excellent efficiency observed
Neural Proximal/Trust Region Policy Optimization Attains Globally Optimal Policy
Proximal policy optimization and trust region policy optimization (PPO and
TRPO) with actor and critic parametrized by neural networks achieve significant
empirical success in deep reinforcement learning. However, due to nonconvexity,
the global convergence of PPO and TRPO remains less understood, which separates
theory from practice. In this paper, we prove that a variant of PPO and TRPO
equipped with overparametrized neural networks converges to the globally
optimal policy at a sublinear rate. The key to our analysis is the global
convergence of infinite-dimensional mirror descent under a notion of one-point
monotonicity, where the gradient and iterate are instantiated by neural
networks. In particular, the desirable representation power and optimization
geometry induced by the overparametrization of such neural networks allow them
to accurately approximate the infinite-dimensional gradient and iterate.Comment: A short versio
Attack Prompt Generation for Red Teaming and Defending Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to red teaming attacks, which
can induce LLMs to generate harmful content. Previous research constructs
attack prompts via manual or automatic methods, which have their own
limitations on construction cost and quality. To address these issues, we
propose an integrated approach that combines manual and automatic methods to
economically generate high-quality attack prompts. Specifically, considering
the impressive capabilities of newly emerged LLMs, we propose an attack
framework to instruct LLMs to mimic human-generated prompts through in-context
learning. Furthermore, we propose a defense framework that fine-tunes victim
LLMs through iterative interactions with the attack framework to enhance their
safety against red teaming attacks. Extensive experiments on different LLMs
validate the effectiveness of our proposed attack and defense frameworks.
Additionally, we release a series of attack prompts datasets named SAP with
varying sizes, facilitating the safety evaluation and enhancement of more LLMs.
Our code and dataset is available on https://github.com/Aatrox103/SAP .Comment: Accepted to EMNLP 2023 (Findings
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