A lossless, accurate, self-calibrating current-sensing technique for DC-DC converters

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 549-554

  Forghani zadeh, H Pooya ^a,b   Rincón Mora, Gabriel A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Current sensing; dc dc converters; gm C filter; Lossless; Power management; Switching regulators

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SENSING; DC-DC CONVERTERS; GM C FILTER; LOSSLESS; POWER MANAGEMENT; SWITCHING REGULATORS;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 33749680443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2005.1568964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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