A high performance voltage down converter (VDC) using new flexible control technology of driving current

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E81-C, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1905-1912

  Endoh, Tetsuo ^a   Nakamura, Kazutoshi ^a   Masuoka, Fujio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Down voltage converter; Driving current; Power consumption; Response

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ULSI CIRCUITS;

DRIVING CURRENT CONTROL; VOLTAGE DOWN CONVERTERS (VDC);

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0032290433     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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