Digital controller for multi-phase DC-DC converters with logarithmic current sharing

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 119-123

  Lukić, Zdravko ^a   Zhao, Zhenyu ^a   Prodić, Aleksandar ^a   Goder, Dimitry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Sipex Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; DC-DC CONVERTERS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

ACTIVE PHASES; ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER; BUCK CONVERTERS; CONSTANT-CURRENT SOURCES; CONVERTER EFFICIENCY; CURRENT SHARING; DC CONVERTERS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES; DIGITAL CONTROLLERS; DIGITAL CONTROLS; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; LIGHT LOADS; LOW POWERS; OPERATING POINTS; OUTPUT LOAD; SYSTEM SIZES; UNIFORM CURRENT;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

EID: 47249092936     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2007.4341973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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