A novel input-side current sensing method to achieve AVP for future VRs

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1235-1242

  Sun, Julu ^b   Zhou, Jinghai ^c   Xu, Ming ^a,b   Lee, Fred C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

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

^c MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive voltage position (AVP); Voltage regulator (VR)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE POSITION (AVP); CURRENT SENSING; INPUT CURRENTS; TOLERANCE ANALYSIS;

VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

EID: 33947139630     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2006.880347     Document Type: Article

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