Digitally-controlled steered-inductor buck converter for improving heavy-to-light load transient response

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3950-3954

  Stupar, Andrija ^a   Lukić, Zdravko ^a   Prodić, Aleksandar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; POWER CONVERTERS; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC); TIME SWITCHES; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; TRANSIENTS;

BUCK CONVERTERS; DIGITAL CONTROLLERS; DIGITAL LOADS; DIGITALLY CONTROLLED; INDUCTOR CURRENTS; LIGHT LOADS; LOW OUTPUT VOLTAGE; LOW POWERS; LOW VOLTAGES; POINT-OF-LOAD CONVERTERS; SETTLING TIME; SLEW RATES;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 52349091035     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2008.4592571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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