Adaptive voltage position design for voltage regulators

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 272-278

  Yao, Kaiwei ^a   Ren, Yuancheng ^a   Sun, Julu ^a   Lee, Kisun ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Zhou, Jinghai ^a   Lee, Fred C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AVP; Output impedance; Voltage regulator

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; OSCILLATIONS; RESISTORS; SWITCHING;

CORE STATIC CURRENTS; OUTPUT IMPEDANCE; POWER MANAGEMENT; VOLTAGE DROP;

VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

EID: 2342638893     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2004.1295821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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