Twisted core coupled inductors for microprocessor voltage regulators

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2536-2545

  Dong, Yan ^a   Zhou, Jinghai ^b   Lee, Fred C ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Wang, Shou ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Monolithic Power Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled inductor; Twisted core; Voltage regulator (VR)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

COUPLED INDUCTOR; COUPLED INDUCTORS; DESIGN PROCEDURES; MICRO-PROCESSORS; TRANSIENT PERFORMANCES; TWISTED CORE;

VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

EID: 57349118469     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2002067     Document Type: Article

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