Voltage regulator module with multi-interleaving technique for future microprocessors

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Garinto, Dodi ^a  

^a Indonesia Power Electronics Center   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

BYPASS LC FILTERS; MULTI-INTERLEAVING TECHNIQUE;

VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

EID: 42449163482     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2006.1711762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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