Design-oriented analysis of modern active droop-controlled power supplies

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3704-3708

  Mishra, Santanu K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive voltage positioning (AVP); Interleaved voltage regulator module; Modeling; Synchronous rectifier

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DROOP CONTROL; ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE; ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE POSITIONING (AVP); CONTROLLED POWER SUPPLY; CONVENTIONAL MODELS; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN PROCEDURE; DESIGN-ORIENTED ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; IMPROVED MODELS; INTERLEAVED VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE; LOOP PERFORMANCE; MODELING; MODULATION SCHEMES; OUTPUT IMPEDANCE; POINT OF LOADS; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 69349097202     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2025289     Document Type: Article

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