Optimal design of current source gate driver for a buck voltage regulator based on a new analytical loss model

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1556-1562

  Zhang, Zhiliang ^a,b   Eberle, Wilson ^a,b   Yang, Zhihua ^b   Liu, Yan Fei ^a,b   Sen, Paresh C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; INDUCTANCE; LOGIC DEVICES; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SWITCHING; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS; ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; ANALYTICAL MODELLING; COMMON SOURCES; COMPLEX PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE; CURRENT SOURCE; CURRENT SOURCES; DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; GATE DRIVERS; GENERAL METHOD; LOSS MODELING; MODELING AND SIMULATION; OPTIMAL DESIGNS; PARASITIC INDUCTANCES; POWER MOSFET; SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION; SIMULATION RESULTS; STATE OF THE ARTS; SWITCHING CHARACTERISTICS; SWITCHING LOSSES; SWITCHING TRANSITIONS; VOLTAGE DRIVERS; VOLTAGE REGULATOR (VR);

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

EID: 48349119561     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2007.4342227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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