Adaptive output current feedforward control in VR applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1880-1887

  Eirea, Gabriel ^a   Sanders, Seth R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive voltage positioning (AVP); Field programmable gate array (FPGA)

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MODULATORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POWER CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ADAPTIVE OUTPUT; ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE POSITIONING (AVP); DIGITAL CONTROLS; ERROR VOLTAGES; FEED FORWARD (FF); FEEDFORWARD PATHS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA); FOUR-PHASE; GRADIENT ALGORITHMS; LOAD TRANSIENTS; OUTPUT CURRENTS; PARAMETER ERRORS; POWER TRAINS; VOLTAGE ERRORS; VOLTAGE REGULATIONS; VR APPLICATIONS;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 47249108171     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.925199     Document Type: Article

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