Design of reconfigurable and robust integrated SC power converter for self-powered energy-efficient devices

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4018-4028

  Chowdhury, Inshad ^a   Ma, Dongsheng ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

DC DC power conversion; Energy management; Reconfigurable architecture; Switched capacitor (SC) circuits

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE GAIN; APPLICATION SCENARIO; CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATION; DC-DC POWER CONVERSION; DESIGN STRATEGIES; DIGITAL CMOS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FAST TRANSIENT RESPONSE; IN-RUSH CURRENT; INPUT VOLTAGES; INPUT/OUTPUT; INTEGRATED POWER; INTERLEAVING REGULATION; LOW POWER APPLICATION; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MAXIMUM LOAD; OUTPUT VOLTAGE RIPPLE; POWER RANGE; POWER STAGE; PULSE CONTROL; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURE; SC POWER CONVERTER; SELF-POWERED; STEP CHANGES; SWITCHED CAPACITOR; SWITCHED-CAPACITOR (SC) CIRCUITS; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATIONS; VARIABLE GAIN; VARIABLE STEP; VOLTAGE CONVERSION;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; POWER CONVERTERS;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 70349615405     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2017092     Document Type: Article

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