A hysteretic control method for multiphase voltage regulator

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2726-2734

  Lee, Kisun ^a   Lee, Fred C ^b   Xu, Ming ^b,c  

^a ON SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

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

^c FSP Group R and D Center   (China)

Author keywords

DC DC power conversion; Power electronics; Transient response

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; CONSTANT SWITCHING FREQUENCY; CONTROL METHODS; DC-DC POWER CONVERSION; DUTY CYCLES; FAST DYNAMIC RESPONSE; HYSTERETIC CONTROL; INTERLEAVING OPERATION; MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE; PHASE-SHIFTING; TRANSIENT RESPONSE;

BANDWIDTH; DAMPING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; HYSTERESIS; POWER ELECTRONICS; STIFFNESS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 74349102653     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2030804     Document Type: Article

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