Wide-bandwidth digital multi-phase controller

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Zhang, Xu ^a   Zane, Regan ^a   Maksimovic, Dragan ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

DIGITAL CONTROLLER IMPLEMENTATION; HARMONIC RIPPLES;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 42449139702     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2006.1712243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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