Digital PWM/PFM controller with input voltage feed-forward for synchronous buck converters

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 523-528

  Zhang, Xu ^a   Maksimovic, Dragan ^a  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; CONTROLLER PARAMETERS; CURRENT SENSING; DC-DC CONVERTERS; DIGITAL PULSES; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCES; EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION; FEED-FORWARD; INPUT VOLTAGES; MODE OF OPERATIONS; MODE SWITCHING; MODE TRANSITIONS; PULSE PERIOD; PWM SWITCHING; SYNCHRONOUS BUCK CONVERTERS; SYNCHRONOUS OPERATIONS;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; EXHIBITIONS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MODULATION; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PULSE TIME MODULATION;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 49249111918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2008.4522771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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