A Digital Power Factor Controller for Primary-Side-Regulated LED Driver

In this study, a digital primary-side controller for a flyback light-emitting diode driver with superior line regulation, high power factor (PF), and low total harmonic distortion (THD) was proposed. Conventional constant on-time control is hampered by input current distortion, leading to high THD. To achieve high PF and low THD, a digital switching frequency limiter with quasi-resonant control was proposed. In addition, owing to the turn-off delay of the MOSFET and propagation delay of the feedback signals, a primary-side-controlled flyback converter experiences poor line regulation. To achieve superior line regulation, delay compensation was proposed and analyzed. A digital controller was realized using a field-programmable gate array and was applied to an input voltage of 90-264 Vac and an output current of 1 A in a hardware prototype to verify the feasibility of the proposed control solution. The experimental results indicate that line regulation was within ±3%, PF was higher than 0.95, and THD was lower than 5% at universal input voltage.