Monolithic/modularized voltage regulator channel

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1162-1176

  Zhang, Xin ^a   Huang, Alex ^b  

^a ANALOG DEVICES INC   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive voltage position (AVP); Current sharing (CS); Distributed control; Integration; Interleaving; Monolithic modularized voltage regulator channel (MVRC); Tolerance; Voltage regulator module (VRM)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE POSITION; MODULARIZED VOLTAGE REGULATOR CHANNEL; MONOLITHIC VOLTAGE REGULATOR CHANNEL; VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 34547106822     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.900466     Document Type: Article

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