A novel phase-shedding control scheme for improved light load efficiency of multiphase interleaved DC-DC converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4742-4752

  Su, Jen Ta ^a   Liu, Chih Wen ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DC DC converters; light load efficiency; lookup table; phase configuration selector; phase shedding

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SCHEMES; INTERLEAVED DC-DC CONVERTERS; LIGHT-LOAD EFFICIENCY; LOAD CURRENTS; PHASE CONFIGURATIONS; POWER EFFICIENCY ESTIMATION; POWER-LOSSES; SYNCHRONOUS BUCK CONVERTER;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; TABLE LOOKUP;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84875183392     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2233220     Document Type: Article

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