Driver deadtime control and its impact on system stability of synchronous Buck voltage regulator

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 163-171

  Qiu, Weihong ^a   Mercer, Steven ^a   Liang, Zhiang ^a   Miller, Greg ^a  

^a INTERSIL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Current control; Driver circuits; Power MOSFET; Stability criteria

Indexed keywords

MOSFET DEVICES; POWER CONVERTERS; STABILITY CRITERIA; SYSTEM STABILITY; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DRIVER CIRCUITS; DRIVER DEADTIME CONTROL; SYNCHRONOUS BUCK VOLTAGE REGULATOR;

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL;

EID: 38349009185     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.911784     Document Type: Article

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