Issues in the delivery of RF current pulses to a microprocessor

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-112

  Sharma, Attma ^a   Wu, Xuelin ^a   Ngo, Khai D T ^b   Lee, Fred C ^b   Xu, Ming ^b   Ren, Yuancheng ^b   Schmit, Andy ^b  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Active clamp; Hybrid filter; Linear active filter (LAF); Linear regulator; Microprocessor power delivery; Passive filter; Switched capacitor active filter; Transient absorber; Transient suppressor; Voltage regulator module (VRM)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; REACTIVE POWER; TRANSIENTS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CURRENT PULSES; HYBRID FILTER; LINEAR ACTIVE FILTER; TRANSIENT ABSORBER; TRANSIENT SUPPRESSOR; VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE;

ELECTRIC FILTERS;

EID: 33846916930     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2006.886604     Document Type: Article

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