Power-tracking embedded buck-boost converter with fast dynamic voltage scaling for the SoC system

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1271-1282

  Lee, Yu Huei ^a   Huang, Shao Chang ^b   Wang, Shih Wei ^a   Wu, Wei Chan ^c   Huang, Ping Ching ^c   Ho, Hsin Hsin ^a   Lai, Yuan Tai ^d   Chen, Ke Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b EMEMORY TECHNOLOGY INC   (Taiwan)

^c RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Buck boost (BB) converter; dc dc converter; dynamic voltage scaling (DVS); peak current control (PCC); power tracking; pulse skipping; system on a chip (SoC); valley current control (VCC)

Indexed keywords

BUCK-BOOST; DYNAMIC VOLTAGE SCALING (DVS); PEAK CURRENT CONTROL; POWER TRACKING; PULSE SKIPPING; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP; VALLEY CURRENT;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

EID: 84863172661     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2101085     Document Type: Article

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