[MUSIC PLAYING] The Cuk converter itself is named by Slobodan Cuk.

It's an
inverting SEPIC. It's also a flyback typology. Means energy is transferred to the
coupling cap once the switch is open. The benefit here is the LC filter is located
at the input. And the other LC filter is located at the output. Means we have
continuous currents at the input and the output, so ripple on both sides of the
converter is very low.

On the other hand, we got two double poles in our power stage that are reducing
dynamic a bit. You need high gain in your [INAUDIBLE] amplifier to get a reasonable
dynamic performance. And same for all those topologies, if the inductors are
coupled, the windings ratio 1 by 1 is mandatory. A boost controller with a single
driver, as well, low cost for your design. And also, you can do this with only one
switch and only one rectifier, compared to the non-isolated inverting flyback.

Again, clean waveforms, no ringing means low EMI, low radiated emissions. Multiple
windings are possible because the output windings are well-coupled on the core.
And, well, there is another small drawback. You got a negative output voltage, but
your controller, in most cases, needs a positive feedback voltage. So you need an
additional small, but cheap operational amplifier to turn the negative feedback
voltage into a positive one.

Now, we change the topology a bit from the SEPIC converter to the Cuk Converter, so
an inverting SEPIC. Again, it's pretty close to a two-stage approach here. If the
switch is open, steady state, you notice that across the winding of L1, C1 is
charged left-handed by the input voltage, but right-handed by L2, also on the
negative output voltage. So the major difference here is that the coupling
capacitor C1 sees input voltage plus output voltage. That's your voltage stress at
C1.

At SEPIC, if you regard it the same, you will see that at C1 is only present the
input voltage. And what we learned before is when Q1, the switch is closed, we got
the magnetizing currents, the sum of the magnetizing currents of L1 and L2 across
the switch. And if we opened a switch, we got the sum of the demagnetizing currents
across the rectifier. Here we are.

If we close the switch, the input voltage is present across L1, and output plus
input voltage is present across L2. And if we open now the switch, the
demagnetizing current is driven by L1 across C1, across the rectifier, back to the
input capacitor. Same for the output, we got the demagnetizing current driven by L2
across the rectifier D1 to the output.

The interesting thing here is if we look on the right side, the inductor current L1
and the inductor current L2 is continuous, so neither a pulse current at the input
nor the output. This typology is well-suited for sensitive applications.