High-frequency dynamic current sharing analyses for multiphase buck VRs

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2424-2431

  Sun, Juanjun ^a   Qiu, Yang ^b   Xu, Ming ^a   Lee, Fred C ^a  

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

^b ANALOG DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Beat frequency; Current sharing; Multiphase buck; Power converters; Power system transients; Voltage regulators

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BEAT FREQUENCY; HIGH-FREQUENCY DYNAMIC CURRENT SHARING; LOAD TRANSIENTS; MULTIFREQUENCY MODEL; MULTIPHASE BUCK;

VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

EID: 36349015945     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.909303     Document Type: Article

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