Thermal management for multi-phase current mode buck converters

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1124-1129

  Cao, Pearl ^a   Ng, Wai Tung ^a   Trescases, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; AIR FLOW; BUCK CONVERTERS; CLOSED-LOOP; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; CURRENT MODE; DEVICE UTILIZATION; DIGITAL TECHNIQUES; FOUR-PHASE; LINEAR CONTROLLERS; LOAD CURRENTS; MIXED SIGNAL; MODE CONVERTER; MOVING AVERAGES; ON-RESISTANCE; PARASITIC RESISTANCES; PEAK CURRENT MODE; PEAK CURRENTS; PHASE TEMPERATURE; POWER SHARING; RESEARCH EFFORTS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; THERMAL MODEL; UNIFORM TEMPERATURE;

DYNAMIC LOADS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; POWER ELECTRONICS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 79955784906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2011.5744735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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