Sensorless current estimation and sharing in multiphase buck converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2936-2946

  Foley, Raymond F ^a   Kavanagh, Richard C ^b   Egan, Michael G ^b  

^a United Technologies Research Centre Ireland Ltd ^*  (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Current measurement; dc dc power conversion; digital control; switched mode power supplies

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; BUCK CONVERTERS; CIRCUIT PARAMETER; CURRENT SENSING; CURRENT-SHARING; DC-DC POWER CONVERSION; DIGITAL CONTROL; DUTY CYCLES; GRADIENT ESTIMATION; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LOW-FREQUENCY PERTURBATIONS; MULTIPHASE BUCK CONVERTER; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; SENSORLESS; SENSORLESS CURRENT; SWITCHED MODE POWER SUPPLIES; VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE;

ALGORITHMS; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84859090288     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2042072     Document Type: Article

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