Multimode digital controller for synchronous buck converters operating over wide ranges of input voltages and load currents

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1958-1965

  Zhang, Xu ^a   Maksimovic, Dragan ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Buck converter; digital control; input voltage feedforward (IVFF); pulse frequency modulation (PFM)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; BUCK CONVERTERS; CONTROLLER PARAMETER; CURRENT SENSING; DIGITAL CONTROL; DIGITAL CONTROLLERS; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION; INPUT VOLTAGES; INPUT-VOLTAGE FEEDFORWARD; LOAD CURRENTS; MODE OF OPERATIONS; MODE TRANSITIONS; MODE-SWITCHING; MULTIMODES; PULSE PERIOD; PULSEWIDTHS; PWM SWITCHING; SYNCHRONOUS BUCK CONVERTER; SYNCHRONOUS OPERATIONS;

CONTROLLERS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY MODULATION;

PULSE TIME MODULATION;

EID: 77954156506     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2043959     Document Type: Article

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