Modeling and design considerations of a novel high-gain peak current control scheme to achieve adaptive voltage positioning (AVP) for DC power converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2942-2950

  Chen, Ching Jan ^a   Chen, Dan ^a   Huang, Chun Shih ^a   Lee, Martin ^a,b   Tseng, Eddie Kuo Lung ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Chicony Power Technology Corporation Ltd   (Taiwan)

^c RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive voltage positioning (AVP); Constant output impedance; Dc power converters; Peak current control (PCC)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CONSTANT OUTPUT IMPEDANCE; CONTROL MODEL; CPU POWER; CURRENT BALANCING; DC POWER CONVERTER; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; FEED-BACK LOOP; GOOD STABILITY; HIGH-GAIN; KEY EQUATION; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PEAK CURRENT CONTROL; TARGET LOAD;

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 74349095850     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2021604     Document Type: Article

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