Integration of a monolithic buck converter power IC and bondwire inductors with ferrite epoxy glob cores

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1627-1630

  Jia, Hongwei ^a   Lu, Jian ^a   Wang, Xuexin ^a   Padmanabhan, Karthik ^a   Shen, Z John ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Bondwire magnetics; buck converter; integrated inductor; power supply in a package (PSiP); power supply on a chip (PSoC)

Indexed keywords

BONDWIRE; BUCK CONVERTER; INTEGRATED INDUCTOR; POWER-SUPPLY-IN-A-PACKAGE (PSIP); POWER-SUPPLY-ON-A-CHIP (PSOC);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; FERRITE; FERRITES;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 79960896519     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2100829     Document Type: Article

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