Phase current unbalance estimation in multiphase buck converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 137-143

  Eirea, Gabriel ^a   Sanders, Seth R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Current sensing; Current sharing; Dc dc converters; Multiphase buck converter; Voltage regulation modules (VRM)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CURRENT SENSING; CURRENT SHARING; MULTIPHASE BUCK CONVERTER; VOLTAGE REGULATION MODULES;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 38349027307     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.911840     Document Type: Article

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