Adaptive modulation control for multiple-phase voltage regulators

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 495-499

  Xiao, Shangyang ^a   Qiu, Weihong ^a   Miller, Greg ^a   Wu, Thomas X ^b   Batarseh, Issa ^b  

^a INTERSIL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive modulation control (AMC); Bandwidth; Multiphase voltage regulator (VR); Transient response

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; BANDWIDTH; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ADAPTIVE MODULATION CONTROL; MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

EID: 38349014903     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.912947     Document Type: Article

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