Design and characterization of differentially enhanced duty ripple control (DE-DRC) for step-down converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2714-2725

  Fan, Jiwei ^a   Li, Xuening ^b   Lim, Sungkeun ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive voltage position (AVP); Differential difference amplifier (DDA); Duty ripple control (DRC); Noise performance; Positive and negative gain

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE; DIFFERENTIAL DIFFERENCE AMPLIFIER; NEGATIVE GAIN; NOISE PERFORMANCE; RIPPLE CONTROL;

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; PULSE CIRCUITS; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

EID: 74349116250     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2028889     Document Type: Article

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