On load adaptive control of voltage regulators for power managed loads: Control schemes to improve converter efficiency and performance

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1806-1819

  Abu Qahouq, Jaber A ^a   Abdel Rahman, Osama ^b   Huang, Lilly ^a   Batarseh, Issa ^c  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b APECOR Co   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Control; Converter; Dc dc; Dynamic response; Efficiency; Light load; Performance; Power management; Ripple; Voltage regulator (VR)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; ELECTRIC LOSSES; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

LIGHT LOAD CURRENTS; LOAD ADAPTIVE CONTROL; POWER MANAGED LOADS; VOLTAGE RIPPLE;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 34548808073     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.904232     Document Type: Article

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