Design considerations for a low-voltage high-current redundant parallel voltage regulator module system

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1330-1338

  Mishra, Santanu ^a   Zhou, Xingsheng ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current mode control; interleaved voltage regulator module (VRM); modeling; parallel system; synchronous rectifier

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MODE CONTROL; INTERLEAVED VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE (VRM); MODELING; PARALLEL SYSTEM; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 79952682982     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2049714     Document Type: Article

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