An online stability margin monitor for digitally controlled switched-mode power supplies

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2639-2648

  Morroni, Jeffrey ^a   Zane, Regan ^a   Maksimović, Dragan ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

DC DC power conversion; Digital control

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOPS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CROSS-OVER FREQUENCIES; DC-DC POWER CONVERSION; DIGITAL CONTROL; DIGITAL CONTROLLERS; FEED-BACK LOOP; LOAD TRANSIENTS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MODELING APPROACH; ON-LINE STABILITY MARGIN; OPEN LOOPS; PHASE MARGINS; POWER STAGE; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; SMALL SIGNAL MODEL; SQUARE WAVE SIGNALS; STABILITY MARGINS; SWITCHED MODE POWER SUPPLIES;

DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; MONITORING; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78650096807     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2029335     Document Type: Article

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