Novel hysteretic control method for multiphase voltage regulators

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1508-1514

  Lee, Kisun ^a   Lee, Fred C ^a   Xu, Ming ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXHIBITIONS; HYSTERESIS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE SHIFT; POWER ELECTRONICS; STIFFNESS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; BAND WIDTH; CONSTANT SWITCHING FREQUENCY; CONTROL METHODS; DUTY CYCLES; EXTERNAL-; FIXED FREQUENCIES; HYSTERETIC CONTROLS; INTERLEAVING OPERATION; MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE REGULATORS; PHASE SHIFTING; PHASE-LOCKED LOOP;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

EID: 49249112451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2008.4522924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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