Area- and power-efficient monolithic buck converters with pseudo-type III compensation

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1446-1455

  Wu, Patrick Y ^a   Tsui, Sam Y S ^b   Mok, Philip K T ^c  

^a ViXS Systems Hong Kong Limited   (Hong Kong)

^b Fujitsu Microelectronic Pacific Asia Ltd   (Hong Kong)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Compact area; fast transient; high efficiency; PWM voltage mode control; Type III compensation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CIRCUITS; BIASING TECHNIQUES; BUCK CONVERTERS; CMOS PROCESSS; ERROR AMPLIFIERS; FAST TRANSIENTS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-GAIN; LOAD CURRENTS; LOAD TRANSIENTS; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW POWER; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MONOLITHIC BUCK CONVERTERS; MW OUTPUT; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVE COMPONENTS; PEAK EFFICIENCY; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER EFFICIENT; PROCESS VARIATION; PROTOTYPE CHIP; VOLTAGE MODE; VOLTAGE-MODE CONTROL;

BANDPASS FILTERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DESIGN;

ERROR COMPENSATION;

EID: 77955127168     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2047451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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