Two-stage 48 V power pod exploration for 64-bit microprocessor

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 426-431

  Ren, Yuancheng ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Yao, Kaiwei ^a   Lee, Fred C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Power Pod; Two Stage; VRM

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; RESONANCE;

POWER PODS;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 0037230754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2003.1179248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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