Lossless current sensing in low-voltage high-current dc/dc modular supplies

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1249-1252

  Dallago, Enrico ^a   Passoni, Marco ^a   Sassone, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; LOW PASS FILTERS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; RESISTORS; TRANSDUCERS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

LOSSLESS CURRENT SENSING; RESISTIVE SHUNTS;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 0034499232     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/41.887952     Document Type: Article

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