Design of a redundant paralleled voltage regulator module system with improved efficiency and dynamic response

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2524-2528

  Mishra, Santanu K ^a   Zhou, Steve ^a   Wenkang, Huang ^a   Schuellein, George ^a  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current sharing; Parallel module; Redundancy; VRM

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REDUNDANCY;

CURRENT MODE CONTROL; CURRENT SHARING; PARALLEL MODULES;

VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

EID: 34948827534     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2006.256894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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