Highly efficient VRM for wide load range with dynamic non-uniform current sharing

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 543-549

  Abu Qahouq, Jaber A ^a   Huang, Lilly ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(R ,S)-SYMMETRIC; APPLIED (CO); BUS CONVERTERS; CONTROL SCHEMES; CONVERTERS (PAPER INDUSTRY); CURRENT SHARING; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; HIGH CURRENTS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGHLY EFFICIENT; LOAD RANGE; MULTI-PHASE; MULTI-PHASE CONVERTERS; POWER FACTOR CORRECTION (PFC) CONVERTERS; POWER STAGES; UNIFORM CURRENT; UNIFORM PHASE;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; EXHIBITIONS; LOADS (FORCES);

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 46449098381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEX.2007.357567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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